La joie de Dieu est folie: Grief...

Oh the lies our culture tells....

Quotes I Like

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” --Oscar Wilde

"The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity." --Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

"In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it." --Barack Obama

"It's a sad thing in a man when his sense of leadership derives from that fact that his wife is even more inert than he is...." --Vic

"[Healing] started with becoming Orthodox and discovering that my body is a vehicle of prayer... that I am my body, not that I "have" a body

"This isn't truth, it's culture." --Me

"When you invite evil into your mind, you aren't acquiring a servant, you're acquiring a master." --Danny Carlton

"Community is the evangelist." --Anon

"On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend:the love between man and woman in marriage;the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains." --Anthony Esolen

"Surely, the first and only safe control is self control. A man unable to govern himself cannot wisely be entrusted with the governance of anyone else - a family, for instance." --Patrick Henry Reardon

"The love of our neighbour in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "what are you going through?" --Simone Weil

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." --Benjamin Disraeli

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." --H.L. Mencken

"The truth will make you odd." --Flannery O'Conner

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." --Kahlil Gibran

"You don't have to stop being American to be Orthodox, but you do have to stop being Protestant" --Paige's priest

"I have tried and I cannot find, either in Scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply." --Charles Swindoll

"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." -- James Thurber

" When health is absent wisdom can not reveal itself,art cannot be exerted,wealth is useless and Reason is powerless." -- Herophilies 300bc

La joie de Dieu est folie

January 5, 2011

Grief...

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