Mike ([info]augustine) wrote,
@ 2009-05-29 02:45:00
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I need to make comments tomorrow, since I forgot to make time to do so today (D'oh!)...but I did wish to make a post really quick while I remembered it. Basically, I decided to buy some add-on space for icons. :-). So, that being the case, if anybody would like to make me any icons with the following quotes, I would greatly, greatly appreciate it. Thank-you :-)
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"The principle objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts a good argument" -GKC

"Gentlemen, gentlemen, I have not yet ceased casting my pearls!" -John Phillimore

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." -GKC

"The Cross and glory went together" -Fulton Sheen

"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged" -GKC

"It is in Christ that we find our worth" -Mardi (my friend)

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it" -GKC

"Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly" -GKC

"Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten" -GKC

"Oppression has silenced its thousands, and tolerance its ten thousands" -Me


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[info]paul1149
2009-05-29 11:49 am UTC (link)
Mike, that Oppression comment is excellent.

p.

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[info]augustine
2009-05-29 04:51 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. :-)

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[info]agladheart
2009-05-29 01:35 pm UTC (link)
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it" -GKC

There are some good quotes here, but this one resonated with me. :)

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[info]augustine
2009-05-29 04:50 pm UTC (link)
:-)

It is from Chesterton's book The Everlasting Man (1925), the book C.S. Lewis referred to as the key book in his own conversion to Christianity.

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[info]etimodnar
2009-05-30 02:24 am UTC (link)
I really like that one too. If an icon is made, I may have to stealz it *cue evil laughter*

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[info]augustine
2009-05-30 08:27 pm UTC (link)
Heh. I'll try to remember that! :-)

By the way, since you have The Everlasting Man, the chapter that the quote comes from is "The Five Deaths of the Faith":
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In short, the whole world being divided about whether the stream was going slower or faster, became conscious of something vague but vast that was going against the stream. Both in fact and figure there is something deeply disturbing about this, and that for an essential reason. A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. A dead dog can be lifted on the leaping water with all the swiftness of a leaping hound; but only a live dog can swim backwards. A paper boat can ride the rising deluge with all the airy arrogance of a fairy ship, but if the fairy ship sails up stream it is really rowed by the fairies. And among the things that merely went with the tide of apparent progress and enlargement there was many a demagogue or sophist whose wild gestures were in truth as lifeless as the movement of a dead dog's limbs wavering in the eddying water; and many a philosophy uncommonly like a paper boat, of the sort that it is not difficult to knock into a cocked hat. But even the truly living and even life-giving things that went with that stream did not thereby prove that they were living or life-giving. It was this other force that was unquestionably and unaccountably alive; the mysterious and unmeasured energy that was thrusting back the river. That was felt to be like the movement of some great monster; and it was none the less clearly a living monster because most people thought it a prehistoric monster. It was none the less an unnatural, an incongruous, and to some a comic upheaval; as if the Great Sea Serpent had suddenly risen out of the Round Pond--unless we consider the Sea Serpent as more likely to live in the Serpentine. This flippant element in the fantasy must not be missed, for it was one of the clearest testimonies to the unexpected nature of the reversal. That age did really feel that a preposterous quality in prehistoric animals belonged also to historic rituals; that mitres and tiaras were like the horns or crests of antediluvian creatures; and that appealing to a Primitive Church was like dressing up as a Primitive Man.

The world is still puzzled by that movement; but most of all because it still moves. I have said something elsewhere of the rather random sort of reproaches that are still directed against it and its much greater consequences; it is enough to say here that the more such critics reproach it the less they explain it.....

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[info]etimodnar
2009-05-31 02:01 am UTC (link)
oh man, I can't believe you typed all that out!

I haven't read it yet, but it's the first thing on my to-read list that I'm allowed to read when exams are over. Two more weeks to go and I'm FREEEEEE

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[info]augustine
2009-05-31 02:35 am UTC (link)
oh man, I can't believe you typed all that out!

...in which case, you are very wise not to believe that, since I didn't. I just copy and pasted. :-)

http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/index.html

I haven't read it yet, but it's the first thing on my to-read list that I'm allowed to read when exams are over.

OK. :-) (Though a warning: it is not as easy to read as most of his books...)

Two more weeks to go and I'm FREEEEEE

Don't beat around the bush: tell me how you *really* feel! lol.

Seriously, yay! :-)

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[info]etimodnar
2009-05-31 02:37 am UTC (link)
You didn't type it all out? LAME! Only lame people copy and paste! It says that here in Hezekiah 4:8, that I've copied and pasted from Biblegateway.com: "only lame people copy and paste" Hez 4:8.


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[info]augustine
2009-05-31 02:45 am UTC (link)
lol. Hezekiah? Must be one of those books the Jesus Seminar tried to add to the canon, like the Gospel of Thomas. Heh. :-)

that I've copied and pasted

Perfect touch. :-)

In any case, to not copy and paste, and repeat the action of typing for no reason would be "vain repetition" I believe (cf. Matthew 6:7). lol.

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[info]etimodnar
2009-05-31 02:51 am UTC (link)
oh man, funniest thing ever! (well, probably not):

I do a night course on Tuesday so I can get a Certificate of Christian Studies and the fellow who took the lecture last week was going through a list of OT books off the top of his head and he listed Hezekiah!! I put my hand up and was like, "Hezekiah isn't a book, he's a king and one of those names that kinda sounds like it should be a book and he was a good king, but not a book" and the fellow was like, "say whaaaat?" and a few other people were like "are you sure?" and they had to look it up to verify.

Hezekiah's my favourite book to make up verses in! =D

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[info]augustine
2009-05-31 02:56 am UTC (link)
lol. So, what other "verses" have you made up? :-)

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[info]etimodnar
2009-05-31 03:03 am UTC (link)
I cannot recall. They come to me as the Spirit wills and no one bothered enough to dictate them down. *sigh*

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[info]augustine
2009-05-31 03:07 am UTC (link)
Pity. lol. :-)

But then again, perhaps someone did record them, and we will find Hezekiah in those books that contain the "lost books of the Bible"...

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