“The world owes God to the Jews”
G.K. Chesterton, cited as header quotation without further attribution in “An Orthodox Rabbi Looks at the ChesterBelloc” by Rabbi Mayer Schiller in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)
“If the judge himself had owned both the Brownlee farm and Hell, he would have rented out the Brownlee place and lived in Hell.”
“Fate’s Purse” in Russell Kirk Ancestral Shadows
“Whether written out somewhere or merely a collection in the back of your mind, you likely have a to-do list of things you want to get done. After all, life is busy and there often isn’t time to do everything you would like. But do you have a to-don’t list? Things that you’re planning not to do? A recent article in the Financial Times points to the often-neglected importance of the art of not doing. In the desire to be productive and accomplish goals, it’s easy to always focus your attention on what to do, rather than on what you know you want to avoid. As the author points out, however, ‘sometimes the absence of bad is more important than the presence of good.’ After all, history is littered with countless examples in which the feeling that something must be done has won out over the patient wariness of avoiding doing something wrong to disastrous effect.”
E-mail from Charalambos Dritsas of IG Wealth Management March 3, 2023
In my latest Epoch Times column I contemplate the painfully familiar task of finding comfort at Christmastime despite everything.
“Goodness should be a factor. Greatness is more than a matter of magnitude – it should have a direction, too.”
David Reevely re the CBC’s Greatest Canadian and similar things in the UK, Germany and South Africa in Ottawa Citizen October 24, 2004
“Without justice, what is the state but a great band of robbers?”
St. Augustine, quoted by Fr. Raymond J. de Souza in National Post April 29, 2023
“One of these days is none of these days.”
“English saying” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 6, 2013
“The impossible is often the untried.”
Irish footballer Jim Goodwin, widely quoted online for instance at https://www.quotes.net/quote/13410