quote

Evil is ultimately the deviation of purpose.
-R.Z.

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quote

Chewing on this.
We objected to morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

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interpreting truth

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
- George MacDonald

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too easily pleased

Laura reminded me of one of my favorite quotes…(thanks, Laura!) :)
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a [...]

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experience

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn.
- C.S. Lewis

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on love and God

There is no reason to suppose that self-consciousness, the recognition of a creature by itself as a “self,” can exist except in contrast with an “other,” a something which is not the self. It is against an environment and preferably a social environment, an environment of other selves, that the awareness of Myself stands out. [...]

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walking

Fredrich Neitzsche suggested that marriage is a “long conversation” urging us, therefore, to marry a friend. (Gary Thomas)

Marriage is a long walk two people take together. Sometimes the terrain is very interesting, sometimes rather dull. At times the walk is arduous, for both persons or for one. Sometimes the conversation is [...]

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men and women

From my favorite movie.
[When Harry Met Sally]
Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Sally Albright: Why not?
Harry Burns: What I’m saying is – and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form – is that men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets [...]

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kiss the brand new day

i just want to fly
put your arms around me, baby
(sugar ray)
Hello, world.
It’s a beautiful day. :)
This morning, was reading about Jesus’ first miracle. Turning water into wine, not only wine but the best wine.
My friend, Jonolan, posted this bit…it gets into a little about our ideas of God…who He is, what He looks like…and [...]

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suffering

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. – C.S. Lewis

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solitude

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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thought

Christianity isn’t difficult – it’s impossible.
-G.K. Chesterton

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reflective

Behold the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which means “God with us.” (Matthew 1:23)
God with us.
What does that mean? What does that look like?
Merry Christmas. =)

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this, this…is “christmas”

He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him
He was despised and forsaken of men
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised and we did not esteem Him.
Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our [...]

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these things

A dear friend reminded me of the following:
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely. . .think on these things.
Phillippians 4:8
He’s my beloved professor from college who is in large part the reason I got my BA in philosophy.
I miss [...]

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take the time

It takes time to extract joy from life.  (from “Elizabethtown”)

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truth

I’m impossible to forget but I’m hard to remember.
-Clare (“Elizabethtown”)

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lady or a flower girl?

The difference between a lady and flower girl is not how she behaves but how she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will, but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as [...]

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merging

If fascinates me how God sometimes brings people together who are so far apart, in so many ways, and merges them into that spiritual homogeneity which is marriage.
- Douglas H. Gresham

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unequivocally, no

“If a liar tells the truth, is it less true?”
- Son of Adam

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perfect

All the signs of life aren’t clear and straight and always right; our ideas of perfect are so imperfect.
- Sam Philips

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pervasive

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper even than reality.
- G.K. Chesterton

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parenting 101

I stumbled across the following quote from my mother from years back:
“Next time you’re feeling down about yourself, just remember: YOUR little sperm won.”
- Mom
Priceless.

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validity?

Faith in its true sense does not belong to the intellect alone, nor to the intellect first, but to the conscience and to the will.
– George MacDonald

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stranger

she was getting sick n’ tired
of being sick n’ tired
she’d drink three cups of coffee
and get really wired
~ phil joel

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introspection

Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.
-C.S. Lewis

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two kinds

“You’re the worst kind. You think you’re low maintenance but you’re really high maintenance…” (When Harry Met Sally)

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wisdom

This is what comes, he says, of giving one’s heart to anything but God. All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only Beloved who will never pass away.
- C.S. Lewis, The [...]

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quote of the day

Something I never thought I’d hear:
“And then, to top it all off, a diseased pigeon landed in my salad.” – My friend Annika (who just moved to New York)
Wow.

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i will never tire

Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers “Please will you do the job for me.”
- C. S. Lewis
(Thought of you, Dustin, when I came across this quote and figured you’d appreciate it.)

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