Friday, September 11, 2009
Quotes from Calvary
"History is the great dust-heap...a pageant and not a philosophy."
- Augustine Birrell
"Day by day, man experiences many greater or lesser hopes, different in kind according to the different periods of his life. Sometimes one of these hopes may appear to be totally satisfying without any need for other hopes. Young people can have the hope of a great and fully satisfying love; the hope of a certain position in their profession, or of some success that will prove decisive for the rest of their lives. When these hopes are fulfilled, however, it becomes clear that they were not, in reality, the whole. It becomes evident that man has need of a hope that goes further. It becomes clear that only something infinite will suffice for him, something that will always be more than he can ever attain."
- Pope Benedict XVI
"There are moments - indeed days, weeks, or even years on end - in some people's lives where there is a palpable sense that all activity is valueless. Perhaps waking up one hopeful, sunny morning, we feel the innocent child within us reanimate, a feeling only to be shortly dispelled by the masked lie of adulthood staring back at us in the bathroom mirror...In such times, and many others left undescribed, many of us may seek out some form of pageantry to provide distraction, or solace. We might visit the corner cinema, or turn on the moving picture box, or eat a cake, in hopes of finding something that will either tickle us, or, more preferably, and much more rarely, provide some sympathetic resonance with out personal situation, either via particulars, or by general philosophic principle."
- Chris Ware
"It is only by becoming children of God that we can be with our common Father. To pray is not to step outside history and withdraw to our own private corner of happiness. When we pray properly we undergo a process of inner purification which opens us up to God and thus to our fellow man as well."
- Pope Benedict XVI
- Augustine Birrell
"Day by day, man experiences many greater or lesser hopes, different in kind according to the different periods of his life. Sometimes one of these hopes may appear to be totally satisfying without any need for other hopes. Young people can have the hope of a great and fully satisfying love; the hope of a certain position in their profession, or of some success that will prove decisive for the rest of their lives. When these hopes are fulfilled, however, it becomes clear that they were not, in reality, the whole. It becomes evident that man has need of a hope that goes further. It becomes clear that only something infinite will suffice for him, something that will always be more than he can ever attain."
- Pope Benedict XVI
"There are moments - indeed days, weeks, or even years on end - in some people's lives where there is a palpable sense that all activity is valueless. Perhaps waking up one hopeful, sunny morning, we feel the innocent child within us reanimate, a feeling only to be shortly dispelled by the masked lie of adulthood staring back at us in the bathroom mirror...In such times, and many others left undescribed, many of us may seek out some form of pageantry to provide distraction, or solace. We might visit the corner cinema, or turn on the moving picture box, or eat a cake, in hopes of finding something that will either tickle us, or, more preferably, and much more rarely, provide some sympathetic resonance with out personal situation, either via particulars, or by general philosophic principle."
- Chris Ware
"It is only by becoming children of God that we can be with our common Father. To pray is not to step outside history and withdraw to our own private corner of happiness. When we pray properly we undergo a process of inner purification which opens us up to God and thus to our fellow man as well."
- Pope Benedict XVI
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