Book Notes, Movies, Various Quotes, Texts I Love.

Often short of a book review.     Just my reaction to the book,  or at times even words and phrases  from the book that I want to remember.   Also quotes from various sources – what used to be called a “commonplace book”, a place to collect passages I like.

• “An explained thing…”
• “By falling in love…one’s eyes are opened…”
• “Les Miserable”: the movie
• “My Antonia”, Willa Cather
• “My Bright Abyss”, Christian Wiman
• “On the Mystery of the Incarnation” (Denise Levertov)
• “The Dark Night of the Soul” (St. John of the Cross)
• “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America”, Bill Bryson
• “The Second Coming” (William Butler Yeats)
• “THEORY” From “The Scheme of Things” by Allen Wheelis
• “There is a brilliantly worded explanation for this.”
• “Vanished on the altar of therapy” (Victor Davis Hanson)
• Act without wanting
• Alexis de Tocqueville: “…bribe the public with the public’s money…”
• Alice Walker’s distraction
• Alister McGrath on Dawkins: “an embarassment to atheists”.
• Anders Nygren on questions
• Ann Lewin, poem on prayer
• Anna Akhmatova: “I Taught Myself to Live Simply…”
• Anne Rice: He knows all about these factions
• Annie Dillard: “…the sleeping god may wake some day…”
• artist Julie Dermansky on discipline
• As Close As The Window On Your Left
• Aslan: The Doctrine and Practice of Revelation
• Aulen: Pascha and atonement
• Avatar
• “Prayer of Incompetence”
• Basho: “The one who writes three to five haiku…”
• Bernard Lewis: the Fascist-Islamofascist connection
• Bland Leading the Bland
• Book: “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing”, by Frederick Franck
• Bruce Charlton: “…continuous revelation…to sustain scripture, reason, tradition…”
• C.S. Lewis: “…a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.”
• C.S. Lewis: “…what you see and hear…depends on what sort of person you are.”
• C.S. Lewis: “…my desire for Paradise…”
• C.S. Lewis: “The scholar has lived in many times…”
• C.S. Lewis: on children’s fears
• Campion’s Brag
• Charles Murray: “…to make observed human nature compatible with theoretical schemes…”
• Charles Taylor: “Civilization is…”
• Charles Taylor: St. Francis and the Particular
• Charles Williams on how poems mean
• Christian Classics (my list)
• Christian Wiman: “The sick person becomes very adept…”
• Christian Wiman: “The task is not to believe…”
• Christina Rossetti: In the Bleak Midwinter
• Confessing Sin in Narnia, by Douglas Wilson
• Credo ut Intelligum: I Affirm Before I Solve The Puzzle
• Creed by the seat of the pants
• Da Vinci: Tell me, tell me if anything ever got done
• Dallas Willard: “…the good news of the presence…”
• Dallas Willard: Discipleship is no essential part of Christianity today
• Dallas Willard: Paralyzed by grace
• David Allen on a clear mind
• David Allen: “…the same thought twice…”
• David Bentley Hart: Really To Know, One Must Love
• David Bentley Hart: “…actus essendi subsistens…”
• David Foster Wallace
• David Hart on Beauty and Love
• David Hart on Primal Distance
• David Hart on the Christian Basis for Religious Freedom
• David Hart: “A Form Evoking Desire”
• David Hart: “A Hermeneutical Labor”
• David Hart: “An Exilic Interiority”
• David Hart: “Beauty evokes desire”
• David Hart: “The contents of the creed…”
• David Hart: Delight As A Mode Of Knowledge
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “…a new type of monasticism…”
• Dorothy Sayers: The Lost Tools of Learning
• Doug Stuart: “Do the right thing and…”
• Doug Wilson: at Eucharist, do not close your eyes
• Douglas Wilson on politics
• Douglas Wilson: “Fathers are jovial and open-handed”
• Douglas Wilson: on the non-violence of the Jain culture
• Douglas Wilson: on what “Twilight” says about love.
• Douglas Wilson: That kindness doesn’t scale to the collective.
• Douglas Wilson: “Come”
• Eckhart on friendship
• Epstein on Valery on politics: politics gets a portion of the contempt it deserves
• Eric Liddell returns
• Eugene Peterson: “…God is doing something before I know it.”
• Fatherlessness
• Flannery O’Connor on “just a symbol”
• Flannery O’Connor: “…stifled with all deliberate speed…”
• Flannery O’Connor: “…the devil has been the unwilling instrument of grace.”
• Flannery O’Connor: “…too stupid to enter the past…”
• Flannery O’Connor: “the Price of Restoration”
• G.K. Chesterton on Children at Play
• G.K. Chesterton on Design
• G.K. Chesterton on the Kingdom
• G.K. Chesterton: “The Fairies May Or May Not Exist”
• G.K. Chesterton: on decadence
• George MacDonald on people who want to govern
• George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: “God’s Grandeur”
• Gift (Czeslaw Milosz, 1911–2004)
• Goethe on assimilating Tradition
• Goethe: “…talk less, draw more”.
• Gore Vidal
• Gratia Non Tollit Naturam Sed Perficit