Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything. – Pope Benedict XVI One day you will fully realize that there is nothing in all of God’s creation to fear. That will be the moment of your liberation. – John Morton And what rough …
The heavens are to be stripped as far as may be of all matter, lest the motions of planets and comets be hindered or rendered irregular. But if, meanwhile, someone explains gravity along with all its laws by the action of some subtle matter, and shows that the motion of …
For there will always be ratio between finite things, but between the finite and the infinite there can never be any comparison. Wherefore, however long drawn out may be the life of your fame, it is not even small, but it is absolutely nothing when compared with eternity. – Boethius, …
When I was in college I took a class on the English Renaissance. In that class we read a lot of literature. One piece that struck me deeply and which we read heavily from was a little book called The Essays by Sir Francis Bacon. Now you are probably not …
Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it in appropriate events. – Ralph Waldo Emerson ; History “For a good work …
Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Hamlet – Act V, Scene ii, 219-220 In 1921 T.S. Eliot published a little article discussing what he viewed as the inconsistencies with the play Hamlet by Shakespeare. The piece is short and entitled Hamlet and His …
Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere) – ee cummings from Spring is like a perhaps hand Hello dear readers!!! You may have noticed that my posts have been MIA for some time now. My sincerest apologies in this regard. I’ve thought of posting often …
Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth – William Wordsworth, from Tintern Abbey Some of my oldest, fondest, and most cherished memories are rooted in nature. For as long as I can remember …
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it’s the engine of the novel.– Monica Ali I remember years ago when I was in high school or maybe even middle school one of my friend’s mom was an artist, a painter. We were over at their house …
The greatest thing by far, is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblance. – Aristotle, from Poetics When I was in college a poet came to visit …
