Quotes 27 Feb

We get too sook old and too late smart, but with a loving God and forgiving friends, I am grateful and glad. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 18

Justin Welby said the Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws, which have developed over 500 years on the principles of a different culture....He said yesterday in advance of publication that British law has ‘underlying values and assumptions’ that come from a clearly Christian tradition. ‘Sharia law is not just about punishments,’ he added. ‘It is something of immense sophistication, but it comes from a very different background of jurisprudence to the one from which British law has developed over the past 500 years’....The problem is reimagining Britain through values applied in action can only work where the narrative of the country is coherent and embracing.’ The Archbishop said: ‘Sharia, which has a powerful and ancient cultural narrative of its own, deeply embedded in a system of faith and understanding of God, and thus especially powerful in forming identity, cannot become part of another narrative.‘Accepting it in part implies accepting its values around the nature of the human person, attitudes to outsiders, the revelation of God, and a basis for life in law, rather than grace, the formative word of Christian culture.’-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5428849/Welby-Islamic-rules-incompatible-British-laws.html

Keep constantly in mind the saying, "The eye is not 

satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with 

hearing."  Strive to withdraw your heart from the 

love of visible things, and direct your affections 

to things invisible.  For those who follow only 

their natural inclinations defile their conscience, 

and lose the grace of God. 

     --Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471) 

      _The Imitation Of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 1, Chapter 1 

The philosopher Plato said that those who love and seek wisdom are 

clinging in recollection (or remembrance) to things that they once had 

seen. On many occasions in my life I have had the need to say, and 

thankfully have been able to say: I know what a good worker is; I know 

what an honest man is; I know what friendship is; I know because I 

remember these things in the person of my father, in the person of his 

friend Hora, and in the example of their friendship. 

== Raimond Gaita [on his father Romulus Gaita], "Romulus my father", 

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and 

to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful 

and his children smart. 

== H. L. Mencken, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks, 1956