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Colin Cloutus
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“[W]e often see the simplest, least-learned, and least-educated people quite clearly, consciously, and easily, assimilating the highest Christian understanding of life, while very learned and cultured men continue to stagnate in paganism.”
― On Life and Essays on Religion
― On Life and Essays on Religion
“When the Metaphysical Society was discussing Joshua's sun standing still upon Gibeon, John Ruskin is represented to have said that it would not surprise him at all to see the sun stop; the wonder to him was that it always went on.”
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“To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing lots of things, not knowing *about* them. Thus to the reverent question posed by Morse - What hath God wrought? - a disturbing answer came back: a neighbourhood of strangers and pointless quantity; a world of fragments and discontinuities.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Sedition comes from hell, and should be driven back to its accursed habitation, to roar in chains and penal fire. The monster newly born is easily quelled, but when the enormous shape grows fierce and conscious of its own strength, then whole nations perish in its jaws, or gro[a]n beneath its feet.”
― The Messiah. In Nine Books. By John Cameron
― The Messiah. In Nine Books. By John Cameron
“As we must not judge of the life of the nation by it's kings and mighty men, so we must not judge the life of the Church by those who are called Rabbi. [...] In the Church, as in society, we often find that that which shows itself uppermost is hut the froth, a sign, it may be, of life beneath, but in itself worthless.”
― England's Antiphon
― England's Antiphon
Colin’s 2025 Year in Books
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