He won’t speak for himself, any more than I speak for myself, but will tell you what he hears. —Jesus on the Holy Spirit, Sc. 82, John 14:26 & 16:13

Precedence

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.

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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.

While they’re waiting he has already given them everything they need. Sc. 69, Luke 18:8

Every careless word you speak you will have to account for in the day of judgment: by your words you will be saved in that day, and by your words you will be condemned. Sc. 38, Matthew 12: 3637. See also James 3:6.

Life

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

It’s like rediscovering the wheel, but it’s got to be a better wheel than before. —John Rist, Confusion in the West, 17:21