Quotes 13 Dec 17

Socialistic economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by
building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.
--attributed to Friedrich Von Hayek and/or Friedrich Adolf Krummacher

The crisis of liberalism is bigger than Trump.  It represents the exhaustion of an intellectual
impulse that ran out of gas in the 20th -- the previous -- century.  Maybe the Left should recast
itself as a purely religious or ethical project since Achilles heel of liberalism is a Marxist
tainted economic model that nobody even pretends works.  They've been focused on pure redistribution for years.  There is no Marxist way to make money.  There are only Marxist ways to spend money. Under the circumstances someone should decide to be the new Marx.  The old one is getting long in the tooth. Their greatest strengths are fostering a sense of belonging, a life-purpose and a kind of ethics, an appeal compromised by the necessity to graft this belief system to a centralized state. The only thing that still works on the Left is its impersonation of Judaeo-Christianity; even that is weakened by its crazy insistence on atheism, which should be optional, since religion is the only thing the Left has to sell.  The reason the Left has been losing ground to Islam is it doesn't work as an economic system yet it hasn't paid enough attention to being a religion.
-- Richard Fernandez, The Big Pretend https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/11/19/the-big-pretend/?singlepage=true

Eccentricity is not--as dull people would have us believe--a form of madness.  It is often a kind of
innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. --Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) _Taken Care Of: The Autobiography of Edith Sitwell_ [1965

If with a truly penitent heart and lively faith we receive that Holy Sacrament, then we spiritually eat the flesh of Christ, and drink his blood; then we dwell in Christ and Christ in us, we are one with Christ, and Christ with us.-  Thomas Cranmer on the Lord's Supper (BCP 1552)

On 8 Dec 1917 '‘Allenby walked into the Old City, in deliberate contrast to Kaiser Wilhelm who had ridden a white horse in triumph into the city before the war.’   Wilhelm rode his charger into Jerusalem in 1898, trying to forge closer ties with the Ottoman Empire against England, France and Russia. ‘Allenby let it be known that he would have been ashamed to ride a horse along the route that his Saviour had ridden on an ass. It is perfectly plausible that this was a genuine sentiment. It was also brilliant propaganda.’" - Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, edited by Jay Winter