rather a beginning
“And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
—Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, p. 125 (via skunkbuds)
October 2011
11 posts
It's been a good little while, I know. →
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So, I’ve been a little not very bloggy as of late. I think a lot of it has to do with some personal, vocational “crises” that I’ve been having, while on another level it’s because I don’t post…
“The very word ‘cross’ should be far removed not only from the person of a Roman citizen but from his thoughts, his eyes, and his ears…. The mere mention of such a thing is shameful to a Roman citizen and a free man.”
—Cicero, Pro Rabirio 5.16 (via shortbreadsh)
News Coverage Is So Much Better
“It’s not so much the world that’s got so much worse but news coverage that’s got so much better.”
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G.K. Chesterton
“Many Christians thought the end of the world really was immanent. Augustine thought differently: a weary world may indeed be nearing its end, but each generation has always thought its own times uniquely awful.” Henry Chadwick, Augustine of Hippo
“God is not exalted in the suppression of the creature. God does not find his triumph in the creature’s lack of freedom or power as compared with his own unconditional and irresistible lordship. He does not work alone when He works all in all.”
—Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, 3.3
Absolument Moderne: Why I like this cover →
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couldn’t agree more.
Hi folks,
I thought I’d take a minute to let you know why I think the cover design for John’s new book The Fault in our Stars is brilliant. I am almost as dismayed by the negative responses to the cover as I was impressed by the amazingly wonderful designs submitted by many of you earlier…
“I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.”
—St. Basil (via fuckyeahchristianradicalism)
