Category: Commonplace_1
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Mencken on liberalism: “the machinations of werewolves…in Wall Street”
“The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts…[he] ascribes all his failures to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of…
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Dorothy Sayers: The Lost Tools of Learning
That I, whose experience of teaching is extremely limited, should presume to discuss education is a matter, surely, that calls for no apology. It is a kind of behavior to which the present climate of opinion is wholly favorable. Bishops air their opinions about economics; biologists, about metaphysics; inorganic chemists, about theology; the most irrelevant…
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Rene Girard on Mousetrap Atonement
…Origin and many of the Greek fathers elaborated a thesis that played a great role as the first centuries of Christianity unfolded, that of Satan duped by the Cross. Satan means the same in this formulation as those St. Paul names as the “princes of this world.” In Western Christianity this thesis has not met…
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Gregory Nazianzen: “Quod non assumpsit, non sanavit”
“What He did not assume, He did not heal.” Gregory Nazianzen, -letter to Cledonius Cappadocian response to Appollonarian Christology, which tried to solve the problem of the unity of the Incarnate Logos by omitting the humanity.
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Quotes from here and there I’ve not categorized
“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands , so does our power to think….If we limit and distort language, we limit and distort personality.” Madeleine L’Engle: A Circle Of Quiet, p.149 …”the idiosyncratic has triumphed over the normative..” Joseph A. Mazzeo: “An…
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The Roman Exorcism Rite: “…Ipse venena bibas…”
Vade Retro Satana. Numquam suade mihi vana. Sunt mala quae libas. Ipse venena bibas. Crux sacra sit mihi lux. Non draco sit mihi dux. (Begone Satan! Suggest not vain things to me. Evil is the cup you offer. Drink the poison yourself. May the Holy Cross be my light. Let not the dragon be my…
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Thomas Merton: “If I can unite in myself…”
“If I can unite in myself the thought and the devotion of Eastern and Western Christendom, the Greek and the Latin Fathers, the Russians with the Spanish mystics, I can prepare in myself the reunion of divided Christians. From that secret and unspoken unity in myself can eventually come a visible and manifest unity of…
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Aulen: Pascha and atonement
“The Paschal season has never ceased to be the impregnable citadel of the classic idea of the atonement.” Gustaf Aulen: Christus Victor, p.133
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Meister Eckhart on Simplicity
“So I say that the aristocrat is one who derives his being, his life, and his happiness from God alone, with God and in God and not at all from his knowledge, perception, or love of God, or any such thing….This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root…
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Meister Eckhart: 20th sign of genuine seers: “…they will let him prevail…”
If you would know and recognize the really sane and genuine seers of God, whom nothing can deceive or misinform, four and twenty signs can detect them… The twentieth sign: if any man fight them, they will let him prevail before accepting help of any sort but God’s… These are the signs of the true…