Commonplace Book: Excerpts From Everywhere “…an egalitarian destroys the very things whose equality he asserts.”“…I felt my heart strangely warmed…” John Wesley“All Flattened Things Are Equal”“All this fairy gold” (attributed to Raymond Chandler)“By falling in love…one’s eyes are opened…”“Did you enjoy my world?”“Liturgy without sacrament just doesn’t work”“Poetry can only be criticized by poetry.”“Vanished on the altar of therapy” (Victor Davis Hanson)Act without wantingAlice Walker’s distractionAlister McGrath on Dawkins: “an embarassment to atheists”.Anders Nygren on questionsAnne Rice: He knows all about these factionsAnnie Dillard: “…the sleeping god may wake some day…”artist Julie Dermansky on disciplineAs Close As The Window On Your LeftAslan: The Doctrine and Practice of RevelationAulen: Pascha and atonement“Prayer of Incompetence”Bernard Lewis: the Fascist-Islamofascist connectionBill MacKinnon (from Boar’s Head Tavern) on GossipBland Leading the BlandC.S. Lewis: “…my desire for Paradise…”C.S. Lewis: on children’s fearsCampion’s BragCassandra (Villanous Company): on marriageCassandra: on keeping promisesCharles Murray: “…to make observed human nature compatible with theoretical schemes…”Christina Rossetti: In the Bleak MidwinterConfessing Sin in Narnia, by Douglas WilsonCredo ut Intelligum: I Affirm Before I Solve The PuzzleCreed by the seat of the pantsDa Vinci: Tell me, tell me if anything ever got doneDallas Willard: “…the good news of the presence…”David Hart on Primal DistanceDavid Hart on the Christian Basis for Religious FreedomDavid Hart: “The contents of the creed…”David Hart: Delight As A Mode Of KnowledgeDoug Stuart: “Do the right thing and…”Doug Wilson: at Eucharist, do not close your eyesDouglas Wilson on politicsDouglas Wilson: “Fathers are jovial and open-handed”Douglas Wilson: on the non-violence of the Jain cultureDouglas Wilson: That kindness doesn’t scale to the collective.Douglas Wilson: “Come”Eric Liddell returnsEugene Peterson: “…God is doing something before I know it.”excerpt: The Derriere GuardFatherlessnessFinally, a definition of “torture”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…”Forer effectG.K. Chesterton on Children at PlayG.K. Chesterton on DesignG.K. Chesterton on the KingdomG.K. Chesterton: on decadenceGoethe on assimilating TraditionGoethe: “…talk less, draw more”.Gratia Non Tollit Naturam Sed PerficitGustaf Aulen on the paschal seasonHelen Vendler, on Gerard M. Hopkins: “…second-order reflection…”I Taught Myself to Live Simply (Anna Akhmatova)Jürgen Habermas: “…and the Christian ethic of love…everything else is idle postmodern talk”John Milton on the government’s role in the bailoutJohn Singer Sargent, on brushesLiberalism: suicide by…greedLooking at Dawkins’ brain through Dawkins’ eyesMarilynn Robinson: Paris Review interview, quotesMary Oliver: from her poem “Praying”.Mary Oliver: from her poem “Sometimes”Mary Whyte, on myths of colorMary Whyte: “I tear up about one in four paintings…”Masai Creed: “The Hyenas Did Not Touch Him”Meister Eckhart: “God is…innocent and free…”Michael Spencer: Captured by the GospelMichael Spencer: on love and the demand that others be holy.Miles Mathis: “Randomness is not art.”Modernism is just rationalized promiscuity, continuedNew Bracelet Acronym: JPTT (Just Preach the Text)Notes from Neil Postman: “Amusing Ourselves To Death”Nouwen: The Discipline of GratitudeO.H.Mowrer on feelings as followersOn the suicide of another great talentOn Touching Nerves That Supposedly Don’t ExistOur genes are selfish, but we can decide whether to evolve or notPaul Elie, on Thomas Merton, on ConversationPortrait of a Good TeacherProgress, by ChestertonQuote: “The Hermeneutics of Suspicion”Quotes from here and there I’ve not categorizedReal Men Don’t Complain. They Fix.Really To Know, One Must LoveSecularism as slow suicideShakespeare on keeping promisesSo it takes a long time to learn ______ ? Listen to Katsushika Hokusai:Studeo: eager to studySuffering has no intrinsic meaning at all Advertisements Share this:TwitterFacebookGoogleEmailRedditTumblrLinkedInPocketWhatsAppLike this:Like Loading...
