“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
Frank Capra, Film Director
Holy cow this is so true.
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”
Winston Churchill
HT: Andrew Mackay
Also, Churchill knew something about beating monsters.
I know Advent is over for this year and we’re on day 4 of Christmas, but I wanted to share this now. Because, one day, there will be no more Advent season and that’s the glory we anticipate when Advent suddenly becomes Christmas every year. I love the season of Advent. I hope it is over forever soon. –Sam
“The story we tell every Advent, like the story we tell every Sunday, is an old one. It is familiar like a children’s tune, like the moon. But it must be told again. We share the story of Advent every year at this time. We share it with the older generations as well as our children and grandchildren. We share it to remember whom we are waiting for. We share it to remind one another to wait with hope. We share it because it is worth sharing, worth repeating, worth telling. As familiar as the story is, it is still true. And one day, one of these Advents will be the last one.”
Thomas McKenzie, from Familiar as the Moon, posted at The Rabbit Room
“You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.”
Steve Brown
HT: TClair
“Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.”
N.T. Wright
“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.”
G K Chesterton
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Collect for the First Sunday of Advent by Thomas Cranmer, The Book of Common Prayer (1549)
HT: Thomas McKenzie
“As the Son, though equal to the Father in all things, willingly and lovingly submits to the Father’s loving goodwill, the loving wife lovingly submits to her loving husband’s loving, good will –though she is equal to him in all things. For this is not politics, but music. Not equality, but harmony. Not justice, but love.”
Peter Kreeft
Hans Urs Von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics
HT: Alan Jacobs (originally shared by triadic)
“The adolescent, excited at finding the wonderful Self, supposes that life now consists in expressing it for the edification of all others. Most of us are bored. Real work… is not self-expression, but its very opposite. St. John the Baptist’s ‘I must decrease but he must increase’ is embedded in all good work.”
Eugene Peters, The Contemplative Pastor
HT: James Witmer