February 2012
111 posts
I don't watch Downton Abbey, but I like this... →
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As Cardinal Newman once observed, “It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless literature of sinful man.”
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So when Lord Grantham failed, we were supposed to get a knot in our stomach. His high virtue tempted us to believe in the human potential. But when our heroes fall, so also fall our hopes in the human potential.
If Lord Grantham can’t do it,...
“Got real estate. I’m buying it all up in outer space.”
– Black Sheep - Metric
random question
do kids still make dioramas for school?
Acknowledge Your Powerlessness
[From The Inner Voice Of Love by Henri J.M. Nouwen, pp.30-31]
There are places in you where you are completely powerless. You so much want to heal yourself, fight your temptations, and stay in control. But you cannot do it yourself. Every time you try, you are more discouraged. So you must acknowledge your powerlessness. This is the first step in Alcoholics Anonymous and the treatment of all...
Keep Living Where God Is
[From The Inner Voice Of Love by Henri J.M. Nouwen, pp.23-24]
When you experience a great need for human affection, you have to ask yourself whether the circumstances surrounding you and the people you are with are truly where God wants you to be. Whatever you are doing— watching a movie, writing a book, giving a presentation, eating, or sleeping— you have to stay in God’s...
“Never be motivated by guilt. Always be motivated by Love. That’s a person...”
– P. Min, Friday Night Large Group
“Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used and using anything that’s...”
– St. Augustine
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it...”
– C.S. Lewis
“From what I can gather, a more precise translation of Christ’s response...”
– Beth Moore, Jesus 90 Days With The One and Only
Lin's Appeal: Faith, Pride and Points [NYT] →
In trying to explain why my Twitter and Facebook streams in the last week have become overrun with postings on Lin, I have struggled to convey to my friends the sense of connection. But it boils down to a welter of emotions from finally having someone I can relate to enter the public consciousness.
- Michael Luo
mm… yea. for me, too.
In a similar vein…
Linsanity, for Asian...
If I wore jeans more often, I would have a greater motivation to exercise. The sweatpants have got to go…
“What most distinguishes the gospel from legalism is that legalism says God will...”
– CS
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He will not settle!
(via sammyyoo)
All Spheres Of Life →
The Knicks overnight phenom Jeremy Lin quotes from a section of John Piper’s book Don’t Waste Your Life in an online testimony recorded last June:
God created us to live with a single passion to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
Lin then adds the following commentary about his coming to treasure Jesus more than basketball success:
When Paul...
“I can honestly say that my father’s love only grew as he got older and as...”
– npr
“Two drifters, off to see the world. There’s such a lot of world to see.”
– Moon River
“Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.”
– Jonah 2:8
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it....”
– Jimmy, A League Of Their Own
unconditionnoel:
Alexander Brailowsky - Chopin:...
“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic....”
– Dumbledore, er… J.K. Rowling
