“It is of the new things that men tire—of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. But it is the old things that startle and intoxicate; it is the old things that are really young.”
G.K. Chesterton
HT: Caleb
“A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.”
George MacDonald
HT: Andrew Peterson
I have benefited from reading Daniel Taylor on Story, Imagination, and Faith. I just discovered his blog, which is great. And the following gem from thsi wonderful, short post.
“Czeslaw Milosz, the Christian Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner, called the poet ‘the secretary of invisible things.’ Unlike Romantic theories of creation, he said the poet did not create things so much as discover things. The poet is a prober of reality, not its maker. And many of the most important things cannot be seen or touched.”
Picture lifted from Dan’s site.
“I have always believed, it is not so much their subjects that the great teachers teach as it is themselves.”
Fredrick Buechner
So true of my Dad. Happy Birthday, Dad. You are the best teacher I’ve ever had.
HT: Al Andrews
“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