A few of my favourite things...
October 18th 2006 13:20
I am kind of tired right now so I've decided to write about a few of my favourite quotes by authors.
"Dash the little Bastard's brains out." CS Lewis Reflections on The Psalms. What he was actually saying was that we should kill any sinful desire that we find in ourselves (especially the selfish ones) as soon as they appear, giving them no chance.
"None of the strong men in the strong ages would have understood what you meant by working for efficiency. Hildebrand would have said that he was working not for efficiency, but for the Catholic Church. Danton would have said that he was working not for efficiency, but for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Even if the ideal of such men were simply the ideal of kicking a man downstairs, they thought of the end like men, not of the process like paralytics. They did not say, "Efficiently elevating my right leg, using,you will notice, the muscles of the thigh and calf, which are in excellent order, I--" Their feeling was quite different. They were so filled with the beautiful vision of the man lying flat at the foot of the staircase that in that ecstasy the rest followed in a flash."
"Here, again in short, Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious."
Both by Chesterton, in Heretics and Orthodoxy.
I have a few others but I thought I would get the ball rolling for you guys......
Josh
"Dash the little Bastard's brains out." CS Lewis Reflections on The Psalms. What he was actually saying was that we should kill any sinful desire that we find in ourselves (especially the selfish ones) as soon as they appear, giving them no chance.
"None of the strong men in the strong ages would have understood what you meant by working for efficiency. Hildebrand would have said that he was working not for efficiency, but for the Catholic Church. Danton would have said that he was working not for efficiency, but for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Even if the ideal of such men were simply the ideal of kicking a man downstairs, they thought of the end like men, not of the process like paralytics. They did not say, "Efficiently elevating my right leg, using,you will notice, the muscles of the thigh and calf, which are in excellent order, I--" Their feeling was quite different. They were so filled with the beautiful vision of the man lying flat at the foot of the staircase that in that ecstasy the rest followed in a flash."
"Here, again in short, Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious."
Both by Chesterton, in Heretics and Orthodoxy.
I have a few others but I thought I would get the ball rolling for you guys......
Josh
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