August 2011
5 posts
“All his life he treasured mild illnesses as justification for purely voluntary...”
– Alan Jacobs on C.S. Lewis
“The bull who killed Vicente Girones was named Bocanegra, was Number 118 of the...”
“Fear stimulates my imagination.”
– Don Draper
“The glory of God is man fully alive.”
– St. Irenaeus
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places....”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
July 2011
6 posts
“History is war, punctuated by brief periods of peace.”
– Kevin Turner
“If you’re not going to govern yourself, someone will govern you....”
– Kevin Turner
“It is an error to think that those who flee worldly affairs and engage in...”
– John Calvin
June 2011
1 post
“There are any number of ways to take what I am about to say in the wrong way, so...”
– Doug Wilson
May 2011
2 posts
“There is no such thing as the right speed for intelligent reading…The sign...”
– Mortimer Adler
“Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives...”
– Proverbs 26:18,19
April 2011
6 posts
“Walk through any mall in America. Browse through the racks at Old Navy and...”
– The Organization Kid, by David Brooks (via The Atlantic)
“That’s the most common complaint the faculty has of Princeton students....”
– The Organization Kid, by David Brooks (via The Atlantic)
“All names will soon be restored to their proper owners. In the meantime, we will...”
– Aslan
“The only business boom, that winter, came to the amusement industry. People...”
– Atlas Shrugged
“An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has...”
– Francisco d’Anconia
"Understanding Bad Words" by Doug Wilson →
March 2011
6 posts
Poetry, Pain, and the Power to See: Why Words... →
This is what I think about when I think about Jonathan Edwards. An important talk from John Piper to his staff.
“A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking,...”
– Martin Luther
“Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require...”
– Paul David Tripp
“O how sweet was life when we sat quietly among the shrines of wisdom, among the...”
– Alcuin
February 2011
10 posts
“Brutus was given as splendid a funeral as those early days could afford; but an...”
– Livy, The Early History of Rome
“Grant us patience under our afflictions.”
“St. John Chrysostom suggests that young husbands should say to their wives: I...”
– § 2365, Catechism of the Catholic Church
“As long as there is fresh air to breathe under an apple tree after a shower, we...”
– Alexander Solzhnitsyn
Candid photos of Civil War battlefield injuries →
“The White Stripes do not belong to Meg and Jack anymore. The White Stripes...”
O GOD, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright; Grant to us such strength and protection, as may support us in all dangers, and carry us through all temptations; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
January 2011
4 posts
“Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer,...”
– B.B. Warfield
“For a Christian rhetoric, perspicuity is the foundation of all the canons of...”
– Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, Vol. II, p. 395. (via Doug Wilson)
“He stands up like a man in the pulpit and out of it. He speaks like a man. He...”
– A journalist once described Billy Sunday this way. (via Brett McKay)
December 2010
12 posts
“That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved...”
– Dorothy Sayers
“You can bleed some things dry, you know? It used to be that before I had ever...”
– Jack White, Under Great White Northern Lights
“Ineffable Creator,
Who, from the treasures of Your wisdom,
has established...”
– A Prayer before Study by St. Thomas Aquinas
“Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and...”
“There are a hundred magazines, but only about five stories.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside...”
When learning that the Big 12-era records for both OU and Nebraska were 139-53 at the time of Nebraska’s final game in the Big 12, the conference championship game, Kirk Herbstreit simply said, “That’s beautiful.” Yes, Mr. Herbstreit, that is beautiful.