The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks, as the priest passed by the man who had fallen among thieves, perhaps—reading the Bible.
Bonhoeffer, Life Together
Sarah Palin was put on earth for two reasons — to kill caribou and kick butt. And she’s all out of caribou.
—Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Here’s two quotations. One about the Church, prompted by recent discussions of Rome / Constantinople. The other is about the movies, which I love:
Human Kind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality
… of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft.
She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts.
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.
– T.S. Eliot “Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” part VI
The Movies are Onto the Search, but they Screw it Up
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life…. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
–Walker Percy, The Moviegoer