My God is greater than your idol.
Came upon this. Don’t know about its accuracy.
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You don’t have to believe in hell to go there.
Maybe I am envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheistic joke, which I of all people could have perpetrated: “God’s only excuse is that He does not exist”. —Nietzsche
I and the Father are one. Sc. 62, John 10:30
I’ve overthrown the world. Sc. 82, John 16:33
This happens in each one’s mind and heart who believes in Christ.
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Instead of “the Sacrament of Love”, say “God”.
At the moment of adoration, we are all equal, kneeling before the Sacrament of Love. — Benedict XVI
Dear Leo:
A Cleveland would be a good president today, don’t you think?
Henry [F. Graff, 2007]
Charles L. Barzun, Where is the Law? A Dialogue
Historic judicial decisions come from “outside the law.”
No citizen of your realm is sure of not seeing his liberty sacrificed to private spite, the spirit of revenge: for no one is so great as to be safe from the hatred of a minister, so little as to be unworthy of that of a clerk. —Malesherbes to Louis XVI, quoted in Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 105
I took only one course with Barzun, and I’m quite sure that my views on poets and novelists were formed before we met. If they hadn’t been, Barzun would never have bothered with me. He didn’t want acolytes; he wanted people with whom he could discuss books. —Arthur Krystal
Two New Books by Arthur Krystal
Arthur Krystal, A Word or Two Before I Go
“These eleven essays and one evocative story range in subject matter from the depredations of aging and the anomalies of cultural appropriation to the friendship between Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling and the day Muhammad Ali punched Krystal in the face.”
Arthur Krystal, Some Unfinished Chaos: The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is your level of confidence that the pendulum has swung so far that we will head back to some form of truth and reason? —Jim Sano
Opinions will change, but the Powers That Be will try to prevent the swinging back, and the pendulum may break.
I’m glad that Internet Archive provides the Perennial Edition of From Dawn to Decadence.
We are none of us tolerant in what concerns us deeply and entirely. —Coleridge, quoted in Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, p. 273
This means that in a free society the State must be tolerant, within the limits of public order.
There are 147 en dashes in Gospel Scenes and Reflections and one em dash.