The kids aren’t religious. —Catholic father from Boston visiting his daughter.
But he’s not going to Mass either, and his daughter might convert to Judaism.
Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy, and War
A Bit of Chestnut Street, Albany, NY
A nice neighboring family just said goodbye to us. The mother, a professor who will be at Rutgers, made the drawings to remember her old home in her new.
Butterfield holds that to view the United States purpose in World War I as the preservation of the world for democracy was immoral. To seek for unconditional surrender on the basis of the absolute evil inherent in the national life of German and Japan in World II was immoral. —Alvin Pitcher
God does not destroy His creation, including Satan.
One can be with God without His talking to you. Usually He doesn’t.
The Greek Jews shake their heads and go back to the Temple. Sc. 80
Perhaps we should pause more often than we do.
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same. —Marshall McLuhan
The tax collectors and the prostitutes will enter the kingdom before you. Sc. 78, Matthew 21:311
That person whom you disrespect may be close to heaven.
If you are not afraid of going to hell, you are in the wrong place.
One is good, who is God. Sc. 71, Mark 10:18
We are not commanded to be good, but to love.
We who are so displeased by earthly evil will want to avoid the fires of hell.
& the selfsame thing the thieves also, who were crucified with him, reproached him with. Matthew 27:44
& they who were crucified with him reviled him. Mark 15:32
I.e., the victims of the law echoed the chief priests & the scribes. But Luke knew that there was one who didn’t.
After seeing Social Justice signs, I was glad to happen upon Peace signs at today’s Empire State Plaza farmers’ market. Turns out at least two of the ladies were CSJs I knew or should have known.
When love is lacking in the world, it is churlish not to love the Mother of God.
Heaven and hell are forever.