“In our day the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur has written powerfully about the ‘second naïveté’ that is the mark of true faith. A century earlier, Kierkegaard wrote about ‘the second immediacy,’ the possibility of being a child or youth for the second time.”
Richard John Neuhaus, “Kierkegaard for Grownups,” in First Things #146 (October 2004)
“Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.”
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“But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.”
Nikabrik [re using bad magic, however] in C.S. Lewis Prince Caspian
“In the famous exchange of letters (in Latin) between C.S. Lewis and St. Giovanni Calabria, Lewis makes a prescient remark: ‘They err who say: “The world is turning pagan again.” Would that it were! The truth is, we are falling into a much worse state. Post-Christian man is not the same as pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as a virgin from a widow.’”
Ted Janiszewski in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“The same age which tends to economic slavery tends to social anarchy; and especially to sexual anarchy. So long as men can be driven in droves like sheep, they can be as promiscuous as sheep.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly March 9, 1929, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“Error is ever the sequence of haste.”
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“Nothing that works is silly...”
Nessus (the puppeteer) in Larry Niven Ringworld
“Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.”
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