Friday Quotes XXXII

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. ~ T. S. Eliot Heard this on NPR this weekend. It's so true.

You shall forget these things, toiling in the household, You shall remember them, droning by the fire, when age and forgetfulness sweeten memory...Saints are not made by accident. Still less is a Christian martyrdom the effect of a man's will to become a Saint, as a man by willing and contriving may become a ruler of men. Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. Not so in Heaven. A martyr, a saint, is always made by the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. A martyrdom is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom. So thus as on earth the Church mourns and rejoices at once, in a fashion that the world cannot understand; so in Heaven the Saints are most high, having made themselves most low, seeing themselves not as we see them, but in the light of the Godhead from which they draw their being. ~ TS Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral Found this gem, while looking for the other Eliot quote. God is most satisfied in us, when we are most satisfied in Him. Christian Hedonism.

mulier taceat in ecclesia (let your women keep silent in church) ~ I Corinthians, ch 14, v 34 This was used to keep women from singing in the Catholic choirs for millenia. The soprano and alto parts had to be sung by boys or castratos.

The reason I didn’t support their tax hike was that I made it very clear that I would support the revenue if it matched the level of reform; they failed to enact the level of efficiency reform that we all knew was necessary. ~ Mike Huckabee Huckabee had 90 taxcuts, but he netted a tax increase.

This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. ~ Ben Franklin Stole this from one of the only reasonable Ron Paul supporters I know.

Into this wild abyss,
The womb of nature and perhaps her grave,
Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,
But all these in their pregnant causes mixed
Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless the almighty maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more worlds,
Into this wild abyss the wary fiend
Stood on the brink of hell and looked a while,
Pondering his voyage... ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II This is the basis of Philip Pullman's Dark Material Trilogy. God created several natures and the books are about their interconnectiveness. Also, they kill God.