“When was the last time you heard a soul-stirring message on the fear of the LORD? We prefer God to be soft and cuddly, so we have defanged and de-clawed the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. We have relegated the God of fearful judgment to those unread pages of the Old Testament. Surely, we reason, God has reformed his ways. But my God is still an awesome God.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“There is a game of April Fool that’s played behind its door,/ Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more”.
G.K. Chesterton “The Aristocrat” with respect to the Devil’s “little place at What’sitsname (it isn’t far away)”
“I want to go; God take me.”
Dwight Eisenhower to his sons John and David and his wife Mamie at his bedside in a "Famous Last Words" calendar I had in 2003
“tourist: the sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Roman Converts” in Dublin Review January-March 1925, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)
“We certainly are not that class of beings which we vainly think ourselves to be; man, an animal of prey, seems to have rapine and the love of bloodshed implanted in his heart…”
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Letters of an American Farmer
“I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge?”
The heroine in J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, quoted by Edward Tingley in First Things January 2002
“If there were no death, there would probably be no religion. As long as there is death, there will be religion – unless our pop psychologists can make us all insane enough to ‘accept death’ calmly and blandly as something natural, as our friend, as ‘a stage of growth’. That’s like telling a quadriplegic that paralysis is a stage of exercise, or a divorcé that divorce is a stage of marriage. It’s the kind of joke only a moron or a sadist would tell.”
Peter Kreeft Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensées Edited, Outlined & Explained
“‘Let there be light!’ said God, and there was light! ‘Let there be blood,’ says man, and there’s a sea!’”
Lord Byron “Don Juan” quoted in Orlo Miller The Donnellys Must Die