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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e4eba4 | Doesn't certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don't you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X anywhere? | Peter Kreeft | ||
| dcc2032 | There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righteousness and their prayers, by the mass and the gravity of their righteousness reverberating on the walls of the divine mercy. No one but God knows who these righteous are or how many there are. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ee800ad | Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 92c77bc | Light, life, and love parallel the three absolute values of truth, goodness, and beauty, the supreme values of the three parts of the soul; intellect, will, and emotions. God is all truth, goodness, and beauty; everything that is true, good, or beautiful is a reflection of God, a participation in God, a shadow of God. Therefore every choice for or against any truth, any goodness or any beauty is a choice for or against God--whether He is kn.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8135821 | First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 331e1eb | Reason and | socrates | Peter Kreeft | |
| 663c9cc | Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.) | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5d7fac3 | The arrow of our souls flies to God as the target--unless the arrow is so badly bent that it flies backwards, in which case it pierces the eye of the archer and makes him blind as a Pharisee. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3d7f54b | We see that the universe is full of all sorts of species. Every possible rung on the cosmic hierarchy is filled. There are no gaps. Below us there are intelligent animals, like apes, then less intelligent animals, like fish, then barely intelligent animals, like slugs and TV producers, then plants, then minerals. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f454f5f | 13. Moderation is dull. (Read G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday to refute that cliche.) | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f72aad6 | Expect the world to be Heaven, and it will feel like Hell. Expect it to be Purgatory, and it will feel like Heaven. The two most salient facts about Purgatory are pain and hope, suffering and meaning. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b32f279 | each | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 213934d | It's the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4eab1a8 | Love makes more waves than hate. Wicked men will hate and fear you more for loving them than for hating them. They will quickly forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right. Saints always go into the ghettos, especially the moral ghettos. They make waves. Moses made waves. Jesus made waves. Muhammad made waves. The waves make the garbage come to the surface, and the waves of garbage often drown the saints and.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c1c8a67 | The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints. | inspirational saints | Peter Kreeft | |
| 79fa586 | After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| deb0fae | What I hate is when consumers act as if farmers want these things, when it's consumers who tell farmers what to grow. They've wanted cheap food. We've grown it. If they want cage-free eggs, they have to pay a lot more money for them. Period. It's cheaper to produce an egg in a massive laying barn with caged hens. It's more efficient and that means it's more sustainable. Yes, I'm saying that factory farming can be more sustainable, though I .. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 649e80f | From the pen of ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER June 10, 1886 Paris, France My dearest Amelia, | Barbara A. Shapiro | ||
| 1d23fbb | We are both women who understand there's no point to the coulda, woulda, shouldas of life. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| a45ad55 | Freedom is the right to be free, and then the obligation to accept responsibility. If you don't understand that, then ugly stuff happens. And when you do understand that, you're prepared to meet the obligations straight-on. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 25e5d81 | Every story, the moment it's written down, will be reread," she said. "And every rereading will be a reinterpretation. In that sense, there is not an original story and there is not an original message." | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 4277a9d | American culture really has two souls. And it's not a question of whether the culture becomes secularized. The culture never becomes one thing or the other. The culture is always two. The culture is always William Bradford and Jonathan Edwards. The culture is always Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison. America was born just in time to have two mentalities. We're like Jacob and Esau struggling in the womb. Secular people want to believe that.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 0530a44 | Religion, Gardner continued, gives us eyes to see and ears to hear in ways that science simply cannot. "With our scientific eyes we can distinguish between true and false. With our religious eyes we can distinguish between right and wrong. When we see with our religious eyes, we live in a world of meaning." -- | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 9c32728 | The Exodus scenes were filmed in the sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, and DeMille transported hundreds of Orthodox Jews from New York, because he believed that "in appearance and in their deep feeling of the significance of the Exodus, they would give the best possible performance as the Children of Israel." But on their first day on set, the extras were forced to fast because the commissary served ham for dinner." | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 9ebc9f4 | Joseph predicted the Exodus, which meant that he knew his descendants would be enslaved by the pharaoh and then freed by God, was the most powerful expression of optimism--and faith--I had ever encountered. It was also, at that moment, an overpowering challenge that I sensed I could no longer continue to avoid. Would I place such credence in a generations-old promise I never actually heard? Could I meet this standard of commitment--to anyth.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| b5d5cb5 | The very roots of destruction are in the achievement of success itself. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| a66036d | The King James Bible, which most Pennsylvanians would have been using, describes the central moment as an act of economic liberation: "Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." But there's a problem with this translation. The Hebrew word der.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 2aa21c6 | study, and cleanse | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 5a0654e | The Starrs came up with a modified three questions for their family meeting. 1. What things went well in our family this week? 2. What things could we improve in our family? 3. What things will you commit to working on this week? | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 2fed8fb | and you will have many opportunities to take in human civilization at its highest levels of achievement. ..approach this experience as a small child might approach a mud puddle. You can lean over and look at yourself in the reflection, maybe stick a finger in it, an cause a little ripple. Or you can dive in, thrash around, and find out what it feels like, what it tastes like... I urge you to jump in. And I look forward to seeing you, back h.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 415f6cf | Their (Council of Dads) wisdom reads like a psalmbook of living: Approach the cow Pack your flip-flops Don't see the wall Tend your tadpoles Live the questions Harvest miracles Always learn to juggle on the side of a hill Take a walk with a turtle | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 2a9e6fd | After a few more weeks of equally uninspired gatherings, I called David. "You're focusing on the wrong thing," he said. "The purpose of the meeting is not to talk about each of you as individuals. It's to focus on how you're functioning as a family." He was right. When else did we discuss this most basic thing: how we were a family. We redesigned our questions: 1. What worked well in our family this week? 2. What went wrong in our family th.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 85708ef | By picking their own punishments, children become more internally driven to avoid them. By choosing their own rewards, children become more intrinsically motivated to achieve them. Let your kids take a greater role in raising themselves. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| a9dc109 | For centuries, European explorers had set out for new lands without using expressions like pharaoh and promised land, New Covenant and New Israel, Exodus and Moses. By choosing these evocative lyrics, the founders of America introduced the themes of oppression and redemption, anticipation and disenchantment, freedom and law, that would carry through four hundred years of American history. Because of them, the story of Moses became the story.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 15317ab | So if the Civil War was really a war over the meaning of the Bible," I asked, "which side won?" "Neither. The events of the war showed that war is not skywriting from God about the virtue of one side or the other. Rather, the ambiguity of the war was evidence of the ambiguity of the American mission; maybe we're not the chosen people we thought we were. Remember that Lincoln, even in 1861, describes Americans as the 'almost-chosen people.' .. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 980928d | A meta-analysis of sixty-six studies completed in 1992 found that mothers who have more support from grandmothers have less stress and more well-adjusted children. The more involved the grandmothers are, the more involved dads are, too. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 2f25b64 | If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don't ask what seat. You just get on." I" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 5f8e933 | Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment--and freely choose one, or the other, or both. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| b07564d | If women want to succeed more at work and if men want to succeed more at home, these expectations have to be challenged. As Gloria Steinem once observed, "It's not about biology, but about consciousness." (p.108)" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 3315b9e | The most important thing in a relationship is the same thing in any relationship, whether it's your family or friends or husband and certainly at work, is just communication, | David Schardt | ||
| 47ab42d | no one gets promoted if they don't own their own success. | David Schardt | ||
| 0592fed | Now we know that women can do what men can do, but we don't know that men can do what women can do." (Gloria Steinem) (p.120)" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| ca8afb8 | More boys need that role model and that choices. As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes. We need more men to sit at the table ... the kitchen table. (p.121) | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 94521a8 | One of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, "Done is better than perfect." (p.126)" | Sheryl Sandberg |