“what William James charitably called ‘earnest and helpless minds.’”
Daniel Boorstin The Genius of American Politics
Re the iPod Canada site opening and having 700,000 songs “it’s striking that almost everyone I’ve asked took only about 10 minutes to discover what they couldn’t find. As they used to say on MTV, too much is never enough.”
Paul Wells in Maclean’s December 20, 2004
“There is no way a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.”
G.K. Chesterton, regarding his fiancee, quoted by Robert More-Jumonville in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 5 (March 2001)
“‘Of course there might be a God. I just don’t know.’ You are either living as though He did, or living as though He didn’t. If you don’t know anything at all, then how did you choose?/ The psalmist famously wrote, ‘The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’’ Did he call the man a fool for not knowing God is real? Or for knowing God is real, but pretending to himself that he didn’t?/ Few people lose belief in God, and then do wrong. The more often traveled path is to do wrong, excuse it, then look for reasons to disbelieve in God.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email “Reading an Empty Book” March 24, 2019.
“‘I’m not saying there is no God. I’m just not religious.’ How curious that the Lord of the Universe might exist, yet not be important enough to think about.”
J. Budziszewski “Underground Thomist” email “Reading an Empty Book” March 24, 2019
“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
Anne in Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
Blaise Pascal quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.”
Francois, duc de La Rouchefoucauld, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com