February 2012
17 posts
“There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as...”
– Annie Dillard
“Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the...”
– Henry Miller
“The public have always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are...”
– Oscar Wilde
“I would have played piano and then [gotten] Jason Segel and Walter the Muppet up...”
– How Bret McKenzie would have staged his Oscar Performance of ‘Man or Muppet’ (via nprfreshair)
That… would have been amazing.
(via inappropriateapplause)
“It turns out the Christian story is a good story in which to learn to fail. As...”
– Lauren Winner, Still (via recycledsoul)
“We live in a time when many religious people feel fiercely threatened by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via ayjay)
This certainly reflects my own experience. When I first began to move to a true rejection of science/faith dualism (extraordinarily difficult to do, even with a reasonable education), I was frequently disturbed by the vastness and complexity of nature, by the...
“I don’t know what I think of that. Because I think, actually, one of the things...”
– Ira Glass, in response to Kurt Braunohler’s comment, “I do have a theory now. I do have a theory about if I do get married in the future. What I think I would want to do is have an agreement that at the end of seven years, we have to get remarried in order for the marriage to continue. But at the...
“Q: So how do you see your faith and your art interacting, ideally?
A: That...”
– Wayne Roosa, artist and art historian interviewed at First Things
“All God’s deeds are inexpressible. We can dishonor them all by speaking about...”
– Hendrikus Berkhof, Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, 9 (quoted here) (h/t)
“Robert wandered out as in a dream. At midnight he found himself on a solitary...”
– George MacDonald, Robert Falconer (via nachtseite)
January 2012
13 posts
“In contemporary religious circles, souls, if they are mentioned at all, tend to...”
– Marilynne Robinson, from her new book When I was a Child I Read Books
[via Wes]
(via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)
“At best, a wish-fulfillment fantasy for everyone who insists they could never...”
– Jason Shawhan on The Help
“This is why the loss of religious certainty facilitated the birth of kitsch....”
– Kitsch and the Modern Predicament by Roger Scruton, City Journal Winter 1999 (via poeticfaith)
“Kitsch is pretense. But not all pretense is kitsch. Something else is needed to...”
– Kitsch and the Modern Predicament by Roger Scruton, City Journal Winter 1999 (via poeticfaith)
“On one winter evening the normal limitations of our bodies seemed to fall away...”
– Gregory Wolfe, at his finest. (via commentmagazine)
“Light and darkness, sun and moon, stars and planets, trees, beasts, whales,...”
– Thomas Merton, Literary Essays, p. 333
“In seminary Mister Rogers studied systematic theology with Dr. William S. Orr....”
– Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Christianity Today (via triadic)
“[Worshippers] don’t go to church to be entertained. They go to use the service,...”
– C.S. Lewis. Letters to Malcolm (via commentmagazine)
December 2011
13 posts
Jennifer Fulwiler Explains Her Conversion From... →
becket:
An Excerpt: If everything that we call heroism and glory, and all the significance of all great human achievements, can be reduced to some neurons firing in the human brain, then it’s all destined to be extinguished at death. And considering that the entire span of homo sapiens’ existence on earth wouldn’t even amount to a blip on the radar screen of a 5-billion-year-old universe, it...
“This is what’s happened this week: Conservatives backed [Herman] Cain in...”
– Peter Sagal on Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
“During our winter mini-term, I teach a course called, “The Bible and American...”
– Rodney Reeves, “Loss by Cross”
“One of my greatest difficulties in considering to think of religion … was that I...”
– George MacDonald, letter to his father, quoted in Life and Religion Are One - Christian History & Biography (via triadic)
“I learned a basic thing from my high school students: cosmic questions do not in...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, in Allegorical Fantasy: Mortal Dealings with Cosmic Questions (via triadic)
November 2011
28 posts
“Biblicists are often so insistent that the Bible is God’s only complete,...”
– Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible (via invisibleforeigner)
“I am the 100%. (Screwed-up, fully implicated, complicit, and responsible.)”
– Gregory Wolfe (on Facebook)
“I have been asked to tell you what Christians believe, and I am going to begin...”
– C.S. Lewis (Thanks to my friend Bryan Owens for sharing this.)
“A house for wisdom; a field for revelation.
Speak to the stones, and the stars...”
– Theodore Roethke, “Unfold! Unfold!”
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“The new rebel in our time is a skeptic and will not entirely trust anything, and...”
– G.K. Chesterton
(That’s actually one paragraph. I inserted line breaks because, frankly, every single one-hundred-ton line of it deserves to be held up to the light and considered. So… if life is meaningless, we have no basis whatsoever to say that anything or anybody is wrong. But if...