“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Love makes men foolish. I speak as a victim myself. We are taken out of our own care and then it remains to be seen only if fate will show to us some share of mercy. Or little. Or none.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
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