"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others."
— Anthony Burgess (via galater514)
"There were, at this very moment, half a dozen books lying neglected in her bedroom, for she knew quite well that if she read them she would only be in possession of yet more information about herself, and with even less idea of how to use it."
— Doris Lessing, Martha Quest (via alreadyam)
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"Doctrine is throughout the Bible compared to fluid which is drunk; to water in Ezekiel, most distinctly; to milk by St Paul; false doctrine to strong drink in the Prophets. And the effect of false doctrine is similar (on the mind which really takes it in as true) to that of strong drink, — it makes a man take a _drunken_ view of truths; he sees them indeed in a sort of way, but without adequate or worthy meaning, order, or symmetry."
— From Priestcraft — or Church versus Bible by Frank Robertson (via christianwisdom)
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"Forsake the petty so as to acquire the great; spurn the excessive and everything meaningless so as to acquire the valuable."
— Saint Isaac El Souriani (via orthodoxbrit)
"Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
— Bram Stoker, Dracula (Chapter XIV)
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C.S. Lewis
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"We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us… but what if we’re only an afterglow of them?"
— J.G. Farrell, “The Siege Of Krisnapur” (via peterseaman)
"Do not leave children to their own devices near a lion’s cage."
— Good Manners for All Occasions, Margaret E. Sangster, 1921. From Wicked Etiquette by Sarah Kortum, 1995. (via ingridrichter)
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"That’s what the present is. It’s a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying."
— Midnight in Paris (via u-foundme)
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"SIR – I must object in the strongest terms to the use of the oxymoronic neologism, “bottomless shallows”, in a Banyan column. Please inform your Mr Banyan that oxymorons must be stamped out wherever found, and are particularly galling in a newspaper of your standing and heritage. I am certain that Messrs Samuel Johnson, Walter Bagehot and Henry Watson Fowler are all spinning in their respective graves at this slight, albeit at different speeds. You know well how lapses like this affect school truancy, foment social disorder and encourage a preference for margarine on one’s scones. Sin not again."
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An Economist reader reminds us of our responsibilities. And rightly so. (via theeconomist)
I think I’m in love.
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