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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2b27db5 | As the philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) put it, a defensible framework of beliefs enables us to hear a tune where otherwise we would hear only a noise.4 | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 677fea7 | I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."8" | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 1af7f84 | Christianity is about the way we behave, not just the way we think. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| e1cfbc2 | For Tolkien, a myth awakens in its readers a longing for something that lies beyond their grasp. Myths | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 88bc34d | The stories of Narnia seem childish nonsense to some. But to others, they are utterly transformative. For the latter group, these evocative stories affirm that it is possible for the weak and foolish to have a noble calling in a dark world; that our deepest intuitions point us to the true meaning of things; that there is indeed something beautiful and wonderful at the heart of the universe; and that this may be found, embraced, and adored. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 78a4ed6 | Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and "chime in" with our deepest intuitions about truth, beauty, and goodness. If" | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| b3abff6 | John Polkinghorne (born 1930) comments on this point as follows: We are so familiar with the fact that we can understand the world that most of the time we take it for granted. It is what makes science possible. Yet it could have been otherwise. The universe might have been a disorderly chaos rather than an orderly cosmos. Or it might have had a rationality which was inaccessible to us. [...] There is a congruence between our minds and the .. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 77fea6d | Lewis had discovered the calming and coping impact, not merely of reading literature, but of putting his feelings into his own words. It was as if the mental process of forging sentences tempered and tamed the emotions that originally inspired them. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 62d01e5 | Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago."[" | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| d7a8c54 | Literature--above all, poetry--was Lewis's firewall, keeping the chaotic and meaningless external world at a safe distance, and shielding him from the existential devastation it wreaked on others. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 8d00d8a | Yet the triumph of the King James Bible was not limited to Great Britain (within which the translation continues to be known as the "Authorized Version")." | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 1ced8d2 | village." The scholar, Lewis declares, has "lived in many times" and can thus challenge the automatic presumption of finality inherent in present judgements and trends: We need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much w.. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| de42788 | Apologetics aims to convert believers into thinkers, and thinkers into believers. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 71ab431 | In the end, Christianity stands or falls with the trustworthinss and reliability of the God who raised Jesus Christ from the dead. By meditating on that first Good Friday, we can remind ourselves of the unreliability of our own judgment on one hand, and the faithfulness of God to his promises on the other- and thus we can put doubt in its proper perspective. For, seen properly, doubt is not a threat to faith, but a reminder of how fragile a.. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 93accd9 | helped Lewis along in the final stage of what the medieval writer Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221-1274) describes as the "journey of the mind to God." | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 65e9352 | In the end, Christianity stands or falls with the trustworthiness and reliability of the God who raised Jesus Christ from the dead. By meditating on that first Good Friday, we can remind ourselves of the unreliability of our own judgment on one hand, and the faithfulness of God to his promises on the other- and thus we can put doubt in its proper perspective. For, seen properly, doubt is not a threat to faith, but a reminder of how fragile .. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| ccd0919 | As Lewis later put it, "All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| ff38c02 | Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action. | executive-branch government president trump-presidential-power trump-resistance-movement | Richard E. Neustadt | |
| f7a83e8 | In all such instances of which I am aware, the Presidents do not think hard enough, carefully enough beforehand, about foreseeable, even likely consequences to their own effectiveness in office, looking down the line and around corners (xviii). | presidential-powers | Richard E. Neustadt | |
| fbd2738 | Weakness is still what I see: weakness in the sense of a great gap between what is expected of a man (or someday woman) and assured capacity to carry through. Expectations arise and clerkly tasks increase, while prospects for sustained support from any quarter worsen as foreign alliances loosen and political parties wane. | government president presidential-power trump trump-resistance-movement | Richard E. Neustadt | |
| 33561e9 | The United States was no longer the overwhelming military power in the world, no longer sure of never losing wars. no longer confident of having learned how to maintain employment and to check inflation, no longer reveling in resource independence, technological supremacy, favorable exchange rates, and the privileged life abroad. (xiii) | government president presidential-power trump trump-resistance-movement | Richard E. Neustadt | |
| 949a199 | For reasons I find hard to fathom, readers with government [Harvard?] experience follow my argument more easily that do some of those for whom it remains theoretical. (xv) | government presidential-power presidents trump trump-resistance-movement | Richard E. Neustadt | |
| 9397720 | They will not be identical unless by chance: human prediction about other humans is not good enough. Why that is sometimes hard for readers inexperienced in government to see, I cannot tell (xvi). | government president presidential-power trump trump-resistance-movement | Richard E. Neustadt | |
| 0d0a061 | these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity. | love uncertainty | Patrick McGrath | |
| 9d21966 | Di solito vogliono che tu tenga la bocca chiusa, a volte pretendono che gridi, e si aspettano che tu sappia la differenza. Era questo che trovava buffo. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| bceeca6 | Le donne romantiche, riflettei: non pensano mai al male che fanno in quella loro forsennata ricerca di esperienze forti. In quella loro infatuazione per la liberta.! | Patrick McGrath | ||
| c71e82e | Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace. | fish furniture lace | Patrick McGrath | |
| c6fdae8 | Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 3669089 | For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very nature of their work, the long periods of isolation followed by public self-display, and the associated risk of rejection all conspire to create unnaturally intense relationships with their sexual partners. Then, when disillusion occurs, as of c.. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 4d46005 | Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?" | rudeness | Patrick McGrath | |
| 129db72 | Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation. | sex | Patrick McGrath | |
| 1c8850b | Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow. | Apples | ||
| bc1a9cd | he stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 4b9a642 | Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 23fdac3 | Harry's voice had matured like old port wine, it was deep and rich and liquid. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 42f5226 | He wished only to live as a free man upon the fruits of his labor, and grow old in the natural rhythms of the earth; instead of which he was cursed, so he felt, always to be an object of disgust, or horror, which is only disgust with a portion of fear superadded- always to be in the eyes of the world a monster. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| c55378d | In quelle settimane invecchiai di parecchi anni, imparai molte cose sullo spirito e su quella sacca simile a una pera, grossa come un pugno e divisa in quattro cavita che chiamiamo cuore. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 9b7b602 | Her mouth was smeared with lipstick and her throat swung bagged and cross-hatched from a wrinkled knob of chin flanked by rouged jowls loosely depending from lumpy cheekbones. Powerful gusts of stale scent emanated from the crannies of her person; the little dog was curled in her lap like a hairy tumor. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| bd014f5 | She carried a faint odor of cocktail sausages mingled with sweat. Like a fool I slipped my hand up the inside of her leg. I felt the roughness of her nylons. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| c8a944b | We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| f0f09dd | In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish--that is their strength. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| 2a63450 | Old age is the new childhood. | old-age | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 0ce185b | One of his black girlfriends did once persuade him to go on an anti-racist demonstration; and when the National Front yelled, "Get back, Pakis!" Chili, wearing a mink-coloured suit, had annoyed everyone by taking out his fat wallet, waving it at the racists and shouting, "Get back to your council flats, paupers!" | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| bffd4b3 | Papa me enseno a coquetear con todo el mundo, chicas y chicos, y acabe por considerar el encanto -y no la cortesia o la franquza, o incluso la decencia- la principal virtud mundana | Hanif Kureishi |