Category: Commonplace_1
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Charles Williams: “To know a thing is to recognize its first cause.”
Charles Williams (Preface to History in English Words?)
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Daniel Nayeri: “Every story is a storyteller pleading to live forever.”
from “Everything Sad Is Untrue”
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Horace: “Naturam expellas furca…”
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret: “you may drive nature out with a pitchfork but she will keep coming back.”
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Donald Justice: “The Wall”
The wall surrounding them they never saw;The angels, often. Angels were as common as birds or butterflies, but looked more human. As long as the wings were furled, they felt no awe.Bests, too, were friendly. They could find no flawin all of Eden: this was the first omen. The second was the dream which woke…
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Philip Yancey: “A memory is…”
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. —- Edward De Bono, “The Mechanism of Mind”. Quoted in “Where The Light Fell”, Philip Yancey. /
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Madeleine L’Engle: “…the irrational season…”
This is the irrational seasonwhen love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reasonThere’d have been no room for the child. — from the poem “After Annunciation”