The Inchcape Rock, st. 15.
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
“Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end.”
The benign catastrophist (2003)
Context: Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end. The others, Ernst, Magritte, were all accepted into the critical fold as serious painters. Only Dalí held out till the end. He just didn't give a damn.
“Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock.”
Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 969.
“I see you off and sorrow—Oh, to be
your horse on land, your vessel on the stream!”
Ðưa chàng lòng dằng dặc buồn,
Bộ khôn bằng ngựa, thủy khôn bằng thuyền.
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 27–28
Source: Catechesis http://www.arzbaires.org.ar/inicio/homilias/homilias2008.htm#49%BACongresoEucar%EDsticoInternacional given by Bergoglio at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress, in Quebec (18 July 2008)
Context: The Christian sees the Church as the Body of Christ, as the vessel that guards with absolute integrity the deposit of faith, as the faithful Spouse who communicates without addition or subtraction all that Christ entrusted. … The Church as a fully “sanctified” reality and capable of receiving and of communicating – without error or defect, from its own poverty and even with its own sins — the full sanctity of God, is not a “complement” or an “institutional addition” to Jesus Christ, but a full participation of his Incarnation, of His Life, of His Passion, death and Resurrection. … In defending its purity, its indefectibility, its sanctity as the bride, the Church is defending the “place” through which the gift of the life of God passes on to the world and the gift of the life of the world to God. This gift – the fullest expression of which is the Eucharist – is not another gift among ourselves but the supreme gift of the most intimate life of the Trinity that poured forth for the life of the world and the life of the world assumed by the Son that is offered to the Father.
“Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.
“Oh, the heart
Knows not the power of music till it loves!”
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”
“Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.”
2011-12-24
Christopher Hitchens on The True Spirit of Christmas
The Wall Street Jorunal
0099-9660
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577110880355067656.html
2010s, 2011
