Even in this life, spend more time with Abraham and Lazarus and less time with Dives.
They who would pass from here to you cannot, nor can they pass to us, who come from you. Sc. 67, Luke 16:26
AI is the answers in the back of the book.
Nobody talks like him.Sc. 56, John 7:46
Plato left everything that he left in writing; Jesus Christ left nothing in writing. —H. Lyman Stebbins
Suppose we were to progress one step tomorrow – really progress. —H. Lyman Stebbins to C. S. Lewis, in Madeleine F. Stebbins, “Correspondence between C.S. Lewis and H. Lyman Stebbins”
People who believed in the COVID shots, masks, and lockdowns also believed in the 2020 election.
Galbanum has a foul aroma to remind us that everyone’s prayers were allowed to be uttered—even those of sinners. —Natan Lawrence, “The Altar of Incense …
Different from other men – anti-vaxxers, election-deniers, transphobes – and from that trad. —after Sc. 69 and Luke 18:11
Since I am made in the image of God, what I prefer may be what God prefers. This is the basis of parables.
Peter Brook, “Sinéad O’Connor: An Event in Irish History” (2021)
There was a wind, and now we’ll have a little more sky.
Remember me and do this. Sc. 82, Luke 22:19
We don’t go back, we remember by doing.
Ozu, a man with the spirit of clown, was really humorous. So I hate to treat him as legend and worship like a God. The clown is lonely, but he must hide his loneliness and play the fool joyfully, comically. That’s the spirit of Ozu’s films. —Yuharu Atsuta
At the hospital, faced with his body, I didn’t feel like crying at all. Just as my eyes met Hara san (Setsuko Hara), I burst into tears. Looking back, that’s the moment when I realised his death. —Yuharu Atsuta