I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.  ~ 

Mahatma Gandhi  September 4th, 2008
 

We may have a duty to rescue a drowning man and, perhaps, if we live on a dangerous coast, to learn lifesaving so as to be ready for any drowning man when he turns up. It may be our duty to lose our own lives in saving him. But if anyone devoted himself to lifesaving in the sense of giving it his total attention– so that he thought and spoke of nothing else and demanded the cessation of all other human activities until everyone had learned to swim– he would be a monomaniac. The rescue of drowning men is, then, a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. It seems to me that all political duties (among which I include military duties) are of this kind. A man may have to die for our country, but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

C.S. Lewis The Weight of Glory September 5th, 2008
 

Do I not destroy my enemies by making them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln William Barclay September 2nd, 2008
 

Why can't evangelical authors produce a true successor to "Mere Christianity"? The main reason, I think, is that today's best scholars, like Mr. Plantinga and Yale philosophy professor Nicholas Wolterstorff, can't write for a general audience (or, in Wright's case, are distracted by the pressures of trying to help hold the Anglican church together), and the writers who can accomplish this are no longer real scholars. Lewis was both, at a time when the two were thought to be compatible. No need to borrow his bona fides because he himself was a leading medievalist and literary critic.

DAVID SKEEL WSJ online August 19th, 2008
 

He once said of a young singer who was technically perfect, but quite without feeling and expression, “she will be great when something breaks her heart.”

Elgar  William Barclay August 12th, 2008
 

All beauty in the world is either a memory of Paradise or a prophecy of the transfigured world.

Nicholas Berdyaev The Divine and the Human July 30th, 2008
 

Boats are safe in the harbor; but that's not what boats are for.

  Seattle Wooden Boat T-Shirt July 24th, 2008
 

The "novel exists to be affecting...to shake us profoundly. When we're rigorous about feeling, we're honoring that." The reader, then, should approach the text as a writer, "which is [about] making aesthetic judgments."

James Wood, literary critic New Yorker,  June 12th, 2008
 

I must try to be alone for part of each year, even a week or a few days; and for part of each day, even an hour or a few minutes, in order to keep my core, my centre, my island quality. Unless I keep the island quality intact somewhere within me, I will have little to give my husband, my children, my friends or the world at large.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gifts From the Sea May 29th, 2008
 

And now, with God's help, I shall become myself. -

Soren Kierkegaard Soren Kierkegaard May 13th, 2008
 

The human being was created for this end: to praise, reverence and serve the Lord... I come from God. I belong to God. I am destined for God.

St. Ignatius The Ways of the Spirit Evelyn Underhill March 23rd, 2008
 

Dynamic and erratic, spontaneous and radical, audacious and immature, committed if not altogether coherent. Ecumenically open and often experimental, visible here and there, now and then but unsettled institutionally. Almost monastic in nature but most of all enacting a fearful hope for society.

William Stringfellow An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land' May 22nd, 2008
 

Don't play what you know, play what you don't know.'

Miles Davis  July 6th, 2008
 

Once you become real, you can't become unreal ~ it lasts forever.

Margery Williams Velveteen Rabbit August 4th, 2008
 

In a bombshell announcement in the world of sports journalism, star columnist Jay Mariotti has abruptly resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times. Only after taping his last ESPN TV from the Sun-Times newsroom today did Mariotti open up. Mariotti told CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker that he decided to quit after covering the Olympics in Beijing because newspapers are in serious trouble, and he did not want to go down with the ship. "It's been a tremendous experience, but I'm going to be honest with you, the profession is dying,'' Mariotti said, "I don't think either paper [Sun-Times or Chicago Tribune] is going to survive. "To showcase your work ... you need a stellar Web site and if a newspaper doesn't have that, you can't be stuck in the 20th century with your old newspaper.''

Jay Mariotti,f sports journalism, star columnist of the the Chicago Sun-Times, cbs2chicago.com August 28th, 2008
 

Indeed the safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters September 6th, 2008