One should not imagine that the Apostles said the Our Father as they walked with Jesus; nor will we say the Our Father in heaven. If you are with Jesus, be with Jesus. If you are with the Father, be with the Father.
The First Amendment does not restrict religion. The First Amendment restricts government.
After they die, many people are going to places they don’t believe in.
Jacques Barzun, “Baseball’s Best Cultural Critic”, Turns His Back on the Game, by Douglas McDaniel
But: “As this book neared completion, Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi and MIke Stadler’s Psychology of Baseball figured among his current reading. —Michael Murray, Jacques Barzun, 2011.
One sometimes has doubts about the small print added to the Gospels.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2020 version)
The term is not a slur; it is a technical label. —Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence
Hirschman on the possibility of and search for genuine novelty.
The possibility of encountering genuine novelty can never be ruled out – this is indeed one of the principal lessons of the past itself. And there is a special justification for the direct search for novelty, creativity, and uniqueness: without these attributes change, at least large-scale social change, may not be possible at all. For, in the first place, the powerful social forces opposed to change will be quite proficient at blocking off those paths of change that have already been trod. Secondly, revolutionaries or radical reformers are unlikely to generate the extraordinary social energy they need to achieve change unless they are exhilaratingly conscious of writing an entirely new page of human history. —Albert O. Hirschman
“J’ay veu en mon temps cent artisans, cent laboureurs, plus sages et plus heureux que des Recteurs de l’Universite.” (I have seen in my time hundreds of artisans and laborers, wiser and happier than university presidents.) —Montaigne, quoted by Aldous Huxley, quoted by IWP Books
Temptations perpetually surround us. —Samuel Johnson, quoted by Aldous Huxley, quoted by IWP Books
The temperamental conservative is a type vulnerable to ridicule, yet not more innately ridiculous than his neighbours. —Agnes Repplier, quoted in Patrick Kurp, "‘Make the Best of a Bad Job’"
Erwin Chargaff on Montaigne’s Essays: “It resembles an ocean from which all manner of things can be drawn forth: a gleaming pearl, a dead fish.” Quoted in Patrick Kurp, "‘‘It Will Be Saved by the Amateurs’'"
A net thrown in the sea catches every kind of fish. Sc. 39
The inner meaning of the First Great Commandment:
To be loved by me hast Thou not done more than I could have dared hope or desire? —Abbé Grou t.co/uwY8HBJFA…
The first Christians were Catholic.
Abbé Grou, How to Pray
Can we consider any method faulty which is the fruit of humility, of the deep feeling of our own incapacity, of a lively faith and confidence in God, and is a method of prayer that the Holy Ghost Himself suggests, to those souls that apply to Him that they may learn how to pray? —Abbé Grou, How to Pray
A man may receive Holy Communion sacrilegiously, but he cannot pray sacrilegiously. —Fr. Bryan Houghton, “Prayer, Grace & the Liturgy”, Unwanted Priest