The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us back ...out in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Catholic theological tradition is not a series of historically contiguous but different theologies; it is a continuous effort ...in a uniform line. A twentieth-century theologian can go back to the thirteenth or sixteenth and not be in an unknown, strange world. He is quite at home, because it is the very house he is living in today. There is central heating now and electricity, but the fireplaces have not been removed. There are elevators, but the magnificent stairs of the older time are still there. Even the moat can still be seen, though today it is used for flower beds, and the drawbridge is always down.... The Protestant theological house does not follow such a plan; it is really a rambling complex of buildings. At any moment it obeys the dictates of the tastes of the time, but one can see in the whole that there were once other structures where present ones now stand. The older parts have been torn down, though elements thereof were employed in the present erections.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a... morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart- opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and ... adore thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. I...t is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We stood a moment so, in a strange world, Myself as one his own pretense deceives;... And then I said the truth (and we moved on). A young beech clinging to its last year's leaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ask every person if he's heard the story, And tell it strong and clear if he has not,... That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory Called Camelot ... Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known As Camelot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events unde...cided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's past and what's to come is strewed with husks And formless ruin of oblivion;... But in this extant moment, faith and truth, Strained purely from all hollow bias-drawing, Bids thee, with most divine integrity, From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at th...e last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »