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their unsullied honor became the foundation of the myth.

The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.

as a luxury liner, it had been converted to wartime use; with blacked-out portholes and gray camouflage paint, it had

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

twelve and thirty. Because only a single line is written about that long stretch of time, those years are called his "Hidden Life.

The third way of understanding the way of Ignatius is as an incarnational spirituality.

For a rational, modern mind, talk of the supernatural can be disturbing—an embarrassment.

As I stand in the vestibule of self-abnegation, I wish to say that I have no regrets. Unfortunately, that would be the foulest lie. I fiercely regret my impending absence.

I wrote my first novel, McFarlane Boils The Sea, under the influence of Kelman and Proust, which is like drinking a cocktail of Bowmore and Châteauneuf du Pape. ( James Meek in interview with TMO )

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.

Thrasymachus admits that all forms of rule are sciences.

as tools of persuasion. He would

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

Anyone who's indifferent to the fate of Edwin Drood is okay in my book.

What confounds a society is not serious opposition, but the lack of seriousness altogether. Generals can more easily suffer attempts to oppose their warfare with poiesis than attempts to show warfare as poiesis.

The triumph of finite sexuality is to be liberated from play into the body. The essence of infinite sexuality is to be liberated into play with the body. In finite sexuality I expect to relate to you as a body; in infinite sexuality I expect to relate to you in your body.

Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

As I have understood more of the biblical view of heaven and earth, I realized that the real question I should be asking is not 'How do I get to heaven?', but, 'How can I be a part of heaven coming to earth?

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Truth Is a Lonely Warrior contends that Satan influences global events,