It is barbaric that we used to print books in a size and format actually convenient and usable for readers and that this stopped without any explanation whatsoever. —Andrew Cusack
Can Christian or Jew expect to get to heaven by not obeying the first great commandment?
One often has the impression that many of the faithful see the canon of the Mass and consecration as simply a way in which Our Lord becomes present solely for the purpose of our being able to receive Him. —Philip Trower
Tie his hands and feet, and throw him into the darkness where he will scream and chew his tongue. Sc. 78, Matthew 22:13
It’s only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced. —Christopher Hitchens
Hell is for people who would have been better off punished on earth.
To do wrong is second only in the scale of evils; to do wrong and not to be punished is first and greatest of all. —Socrates
Made in the image of God, like Him we demand to be loved.
I know it, but I don’t believe it. —Arthur Krystal
You in your lifetime received your good things. Sc. 67, Luke 16:25
ʟʏsɪsᴛʀᴀᴛᴀ. Well, they say everybody’s business is nobody’s business —Shaw, The Apple Cart
There are different works, but the same God. 1 Corinthians 12:6
Everything must be observed. twitter.com/LeoTheLes…
During Mass, we speak to God, to the priest, and – once – to persons next to us. The last speech is not as important as the others
I had a sensation of Shaw nodding courteously, as if to acknowledge that I have at least done my best. —Colin Wilson, George Bernard Shaw
So I with Jesus, as I was writing Gospel Scenes.
'The Fundamental Objection to Socialism'
A nationalised business belongs to nobody – for the ‘state’ is nobody. Shaw had said it in The Apple Cart: ‘Everybody’s business is nobody’s business’ – yet had still not recognised that he had stated the fundamental objection to socialism. —Colin Wilson, George Bernard Shaw, 1969, Afterword (1980)
The classics say things that we think and feel, and cannot say better ourselves.
We “can’t go back,” but we can say the Nicene Creed: “I believe” and “we believe,” not “they believed” or “we used to believe.”
It is a serious fault to think that because something is true, one has to feel a particular way about it. Pope Francis and many other priests suffer from this fault.
When an increasing number of people believe an election is stolen, or a vaccination is not safe or effective, it is not a proper response to say to them, “You can’t prove it.” The proper response is to reduce that number in open and honest ways.
Don’t say “(Lord) hear our prayer,” but “(Lord,) hear our prayer.”