Suddenly, unexpectedly, cause unknown.
“God wouldn’t do that.” But if He would, is He still your God?
‘…his ideas, his words, his temperament speak to me with intimacy as well as force…“he does me good”…I stroll with him again and again because he knows better than anyone else the material and spiritual country I am travelling through.’ — Jacques Barzun on William James twitter.com/mckinleya…
Though slavery is evil, to say that a slave cannot benefit from slavery is to say that the slave is not human. Good can come out of evil.
“Gender dysphoria” should probably be “sex dysphoria,” since the person is dissatisfied with his/her/their/zir/hir/eir/vis/tern sex rather than his/her/their/zir/hir/eir/vis/tern gender.
If I have a mote in my eye, I certainly want it removed.
“The Body of Christ” twitter.com/leotheles…
Verity eventually triumphs. —Pascal
When force meets force, the weaker must succumb to the stronger; when argument is opposed to argument, the solid and the convincing triumphs over the empty and the false; but violence and verity can make no impression on each other. Let none suppose, however, that the two are, therefore, equal to each other; for there is this vast difference between them, that violence has only a certain course to run, limited by the appointment of Heaven, which overrules its effects to the glory of the truth which it assails; whereas verity endures forever and eventually triumphs over its enemies, being eternal and almighty as God himself. —Pascal, quoted by Fr. Martin Grichting
Walk with me.
“WYD participants can visit places of worship such as the mosque, synagogue, Ismaili center, Hindu temple and also some churches linked to inter-religious issues, such as the Church of São Domingos and the Church of São Roque”, said Father Peter Stilwell. —Lisbon 2023: WYD will pass through spaces of various religions, promoting dialogue initiatives
How interreligious dialogue got a front-row seat at World Youth Day
Walk with me. Sc.71, Mark 10:21
If people feel “hurt,” “excluded,” or “unwelcomed” by the central contents of the Church’s teachings on faith and morals, then they feel “hurt,” “excluded,” or “unwelcomed” by God. —Fr. Martin Grichting
I love power as a musician loves his violin. I love it as an artist. —Napoleon, quoted in Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 236
Flaubert, Turgenev, Maxime Du Camp, Alphonse Daudet, Emile Zola
The conviction that held them together was the conviction that art and morality are two perfectly different things, and that the former has no more to do with the latter than it has with astronomy or embryology. The only duty of a novel was to be well written; that merit included every other of which it was capable. —Henry James
It was not, moreover, on account of any esteem which he accorded to my own productions (I used regularly to send them to him) that I found him so agreeable, for to the best of my belief he was unable to read them. —Henry James on Turgenev
We live in a period of controversy without debate. —Barzun (1973) Thread
Barzun, “Educational Disputes”, Encounter, November, 1973, pp. 40–47