I am saddened by the realization that the more comfortable our lives become, the fewer opportunities we have for heroism.
Soli Deo Gloria
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
A not-so-regular blog dedicated to exploring and understanding truth from a philosophical and theological perspective.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. -- SIR FRANCIS BACON
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -- C.S. LEWIS
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -- C.S. LEWIS
My Email
Blog Archive
Books of Varying Interest
- A Return to Modesty by Wendy Shalit
- A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
- Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Vaclav Klaus
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Christianity & Western Though by Colin Brown
- Great Western Indian Fights: The Defining Battles
- Ideas of the Great Philosophers by William S. Sahakian
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Christian Tradition by Jaroslav Pelikan
- The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- The Fathers of the Church by Mike Aquilina
- The History of Christian Thought by Jonathan Hill
- The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges
- The Most Evil Pirates In History by Shelley Klein
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- The Story of Christianity by Justo L. Gonzalez
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Musical Artists of Note
- George Frideric Handel
- Bebo Norman
- Johan Sebastian Bach
- Third Day
- Newsboys
- By The Tree
Movies To Watch
- A Place In The Sun
- A River Runs Through It
- All About Eve
- Amazing Grace
- Casa Blanca
- Grapes of Wrath
- His Girl Friday
- It's A Wonderful Life
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
- North By Northwest
- On The Waterfront
- Pride & Prejudice
- Red River
- Shane
- The African Queen
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The General
- The Godfather
- The Godfather II
- The Lady Eve
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- The Philadelphia Story
- The Searchers
- This Property Is Condemned
Quotes Worth Pondering Concerning Truth
- Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. -- VOLTAIRE
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. -- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
- Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? -- LORD BYRON
- In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. -- SAMUEL JOHNSON
- It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. -- JOHN LOCKE
- It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. -- SAMUEL JOHNSON
- No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. -- HENRY DAVID THOREAU
No comments:
Post a Comment