March 2012
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“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to...”
– 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 (ESV)
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“Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your...”
– 1 Corinthians 14:20 (ESV, GRK, LAT)
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“Man was created to see God. Man by sin lost the blessedness for which he was...”
– Anselm, Proslogion I
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“Since God is the highest good, He would not allow any evil to exist in His...”
– Augustine, Enchiridion xi
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P. G. Wodehouse on Writing
Paris Review Interview
Wodehouse’s writing habits:
He wrote seven days a week.
He wrote 2,000 words a day when he was younger, and by the time he was ninety he was down to 1,000.
He typically wrote a novel in three months when he was young, but late in life had slowed to around six months.
He worked his plots out before he started. He would typically accumulate 400 pages of notes before...
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“I couldn’t make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it every...”
– Flannery O’Connor on Thomas Aquinas. (via johnthelutheran)
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“Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who do such things and yet do them...”
– Romans 2:3-4 (ESV)
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“Brittanica went bankrupt in 1996, long before Wikipedia was a crowdsourced gleam...”
– Wikipedia Didn’t Kill Brittanica; Windows Did | Epicenter | Wired.com (via ayjay)
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“As ‘After-birth Abortion’ spread around the world and gained wide publicity —...”
– Andrew Ferguson. I think Ferguson might make even more of this than he does. The editors are saying, quite straightforwardly, We do not expect or want the people who could be affected by our recommendations to see those recommendations, or how we arrive at them. This is the classic behavior of what...
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Four Word Letter (Pt. Two)
greenandblueworld:
I wrote a four word letter, with post-script, in crooked lines, “tho I’d lived I’d never been alive.” You know who I am you held my hem as I traveled blind listening to the whispering in my ear, soft but getting stronger, telling me the only purpose of my being here is to stay a bit longer. stealing a bicycle chain, as the handlebars crashed to the ground, the back wheel...
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“It would be great to get rid of Kony. He and his forces have left a path of...”
– Guest post: Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things) - By Michael Wilkerson | FP Passport (via ayjay)
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“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis (via saddest-summer)
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