“miracle: the liberty of God; an event that means Materialism is nonsense.”
G.K. Chesterton, “The Romance of Orthodoxy” in Orthodoxy and “An Example and a Question” in Irish Impressions according to “Chesternitions” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #3 (Dec. 2003)
“The nice thing about life is that you never know what is going to happen next. The problem with death is that you do know what is going to happen next. Nothing.”
Steve Bridge, a cryonics enthusiast, quoted in National Review September 2, 1996
“The Master said, ‘Men of antiquity studied to improve themselves; men today study to impress others.’”
Confucius Analects XIV.24
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email February 6, 2022
“For a monster with mysterious eyes and miraculous thumbs, with strange dreams in his skull, and a queer tenderness for this place or that baby, is truly a wonderful and unnerving matter.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Frances Farrell in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #8, July/August 2000
“The master said, ‘In antiquity men were loath to speak. This is because they counted it shameful if their person failed to keep up with their words’”
Confucius The Analects IV.22
“You can critique marriage. Fine. But what game are you going to play? Try coming up with one on your own. Maybe you can. Maybe you’re like avant-garde Picasso, maybe you are, and maybe you have a right to make your own arrangement. Maybe you have the psychological fortitude to craft your own social institution, but I bloody well wouldn’t count on it. You’re lucky that there’s such a thing as a job, or better yet, a career. You’re lucky that there’s such a thing as friendship, as marriage, all of these social institutions. And when you criticize them, Nietzsche put it as one question of conscience, and I think it’s in Twilight of the Idols: Whether you’re a leader, or whether you’re running away, you’re outside the pack and moving in a different direction. In either case, you know, are you a rebel because you can’t fit in? Or are you a rebel because you could fit in, but you see a better way? People in that category are not that common. And the first question of conscience should be, well, ‘Which of those two are you?’ It’s highly probable that you’re the first one, and not the second, because that would mean that you would be intensely disciplined, plus creative on that dimension. Maybe that is you, and God, then we need you. You know, like, you’re an avatar of the savior under those circumstances, and maybe everyone has some of that in them.”
Jordan Peterson in a video clip from “The JBP Show” on Instagram January 18, 2022
“In all my life I have met only one person who claims to have seen a ghost. And the interesting thing about the story is that the person disbelieved in the immortal soul before she saw the ghost and still disbelieves after seeing it.”
Start of C.S. Lewis Miracles