invicem sunt
I am blessed to be a witness
May 23 '13
★
“When we live with others, obedience also means we set aside our own tastes and leave things in the place others have put them. In this way, life becomes an epic film in slow motion. It does not make our head spin. It does not take our breath away. Little by little, thread by thread, it eats away at the old man’s frame, which cannot be mended and must be made new from the ground up” Madeleine Delbrêl”
— (via quaerere-deum)
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May 23 '13
★
“Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (via reclusive-genius)
(Source: likeafieldmouse)
May 22 '13
May 22 '13
★
“The generic human need to make and listen to music, for instance, might be explained at the level of evolutionary psychology, but the emergence of the classical symphony certainly cannot. In fact, the insistence on finding explanations of cultural difference in terms of biological evolution exactly misses the point of the great evolutionary innovation represented by Homo sapiens, the massive development of non-genetic learning.”
— Bernard Williams, English moral philosopher, (1929-2003), Truth and Truthfulness, Princeton University Press, 2002, p. 28. (via amiquote)
May 22 '13
★
“It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light
For the wretched of the earth there is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
They will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord
They will walk behind the ploughshare, they will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!
Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me?”
For the wretched of the earth there is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
They will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord
They will walk behind the ploughshare, they will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!
Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me?”
— Les Misérables
May 22 '13
May 22 '13
★
“We seem to have reached a point where if the word “real” can be used at all, then the only world which is “real” for us, as in the world in which all of us, including scientists, are born, work, love, hate and die, is the primary phenomenal world as it is and always has been presented to us through our senses, a world in which the sun moves across the sky from east to west, the stars are hung like lamps in the vault of heaven, the measure of magnitude is the human body and objects are either in motion or at rest.”
— W.H. Auden (via chasingtailfeathers)
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May 22 '13
★
“First, you must have a relationship with Jesus Christ. To evangelize is not just to share ideas — any theologian or historian could do that. It’s to share a relationship, and you can’t share what you don’t have. Therefore, you’ve got to be in a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.”
— Fr. Robert Barron (via badwolfcomplex)
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May 21 '13
May 21 '13
★
“There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.”
— Saul Bellow (via theparisreview)
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