MacCaffrey, Anne.

Tonight...each day dies, Helva thought, to let night with its darkness for sorrowing and sleep complete its course and bring...a new day.  Taps, a simple, poignant statement of end and beginning.

The Ship Who Sang (PL009,), p. 248.

DAY; DEATH; NIGHT; TAPS

19841013

MacDonald, George. 

It is very seldom indeed that they [words] carry the exact meaning of any user of them!  And if they can be so used as to convey definite meaning, it does not follow that they ought never to carry anything else.  Words are live things that may be variously employed to various ends....  The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended!

"The Fantastic Imagination,"

The Gifts of the Child Christ, vol. I.  (PH191, Eerdmans, 1973), pp. 26-7.

COMPREHENSION; MEANING; PURPOSES; WORDS

19770000

The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

Unspoken Sermons, First Series. (UoL, ), p. ?.

DEATH; JESUS THE CHRIST; SUFFERING

19840200

Accepting fact, he found nothing in its outward relations by which a man can live, any more than by bread; but this poetic nature, illuminating it as with the polarized ray, revealed therein more life and richer hope.

Warlock o'Glen Warlock (SWBTS, Routledge, 1881 ), p. 16.

FACTS; INTERPRETATIONS; MEANING

19770000

I scorn the idea that a man cannot think without words, but [he] thus improved his thinking, and learned to utter accurately, that is, to say the thing he meant, and keep from saying the thing he did not mean.

Warlock o'Glen Warlock (SWBTS, Routledge, 1881 ), p. 687.

ACCURACY; THINKING; WORDS

19770000

McGill, Arthur.

People want their world to be built out of indestructible particles.  They want their knowledge to be grounded on solid facts.  They want their security to be guaranteed by invincible weapons and impregnable defences.  Above all, they imagine their gods in the same way.  Since to be real means to be heavy and static, to be supremely real is to be supremely heavy and supremely static.

The Celebration of Flesh:  Poetry in Christian Life. (??), p. 177,

In:  Killinger, John.  The Fragile Presence. (PH94, ), p. 89.

GOD; SECURITY; STATUS QUO - RELIGIOUS

19800000

McGrory, Mary.

If he [Attorney General Edwin Meese] had been sent to check out Bluebeard's castle, he would have come back with a glowing report about the admirable condition of the cutlery.

"Perspectives," (column),

IN:  Newsweek (July 10, 1987), p. 11.

ATTORNEY GENERALS, U.S.; BLUEBEARD; IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR; JUSTICE; MEESE, EDWIN; REAGAN'S CABINET

19870805

MacKay, Donald.

For my own part, I believe I have a Christian duty, when short of data or theological issues, to keep mind open and mouth shut.

"The Two Faiths Tied Together," (interview),

In:  Christianity Today (August 6, 1982), p. 19.

CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITIES; FAITH; MIND, OPEN; OPINIONS; SPEECH

19820800

MacKenzie, Donald A.

The meaning of "luck" is somewhat vague in our day.  It is something we half believe in even against our better judgment—something distantly related to faith and the conception of destiny, but, when closely examined, found to be disreputable and more akin to gross superstition and, therefore, manifestly a survival of pagan modes of thought.

The Migration of Symbols and their Relations to Beliefs and Customs.  (FIUGL, AMS Press, 1970; reprnt of 1926), p. 1.

BELIEFS; DESTINY; FAITH; LUCK; PAGANISM; SUPERSTITIONS; THOUGHT PATTERNS

20050801

MacKillop, James.

Legends are popular, unauthenticated / narratives thought to be historical, like those surrounding Arthur and Charlemagne;...

"Introduction,"

In:  Dictionary of Celtic Mythology.  (FIUGL, OxUP, 1998), pp. xviii-xix.

ARTHUR, KING; CHARLEMAGNE; HISTORY; LEGENDS - DEFINITIONS

20051017

MacLean, Alistair. 

We are the clever ones, the old ones, the wise one, the knowing ones.  And the old ones are alive and the young ones are dead.  And so it always is.  We mocked them, laughed at them, distrusted them, marvelled at their youth and stupidity and ignorance..../ And in the end they were better men than we were....

Force 10 from Navarone. (PE#, Fawcett Cress, 1968), pp. 250-1.

AGE (HUMAN); SURVIVAL; YOUTH

19841115

Sadness and desolation and a world that was gone forever.

When Eight Bells Toll. (PE116, Fawcett Cress, 1966), p. 81.

DESOLATION; PAST, THE; SADNESS

19841112

MacLeod, G. Preston.

It is a great thing to be able to come to the point.

The Interpreter's Bible (HG154, Abingdon, 1955), p. 187.

COMMUNICATION; CONVERSATION; FOCUS; POINT

19831100

MacLeod, Ken.

Outer space is, fundamentally, familiar.  It's only the night sky, without the earth beneath your feet.

Cosmonaut's Keep,

In his:  The Engines of Light (HQ218, SFBC, 2003), p. 11.

OUTER SPACE

20040105

McMillan, John.

A definition of a market transaction, then, is an exchange that is voluntary:  each party can veto it, and (subject to the rules of the marketplace) each freely agrees to the terms.  A market is a forum for carrying out such exchanges.

Reinventing the Bazaar (PQ300, WWNorton, 2002), p. 6.

EXCHANGES; MARKETS - DEFINITIONS

20040310

...a market works well only if information flows smoothly through it.

Reinventing the Bazaar (PQ300, WWNorton, 2002), p. 10.

INFORMATION; MARKETS

20040310

...Another such issue is that a market works well only if people can trust each other.  Trust requires mechanisms to bolster it since, regrettably, not everyone is inherently trustworthy.

Reinventing the Bazaar (PQ300, WWNorton, 2002), p. 10.

DISHONESTY; MARKETS; TRUST

20040310

An absolutely free market is like folk football, a free-for-all brawl.  A real market is like American football, an ordered brawl.

Reinventing the Bazaar (PQ300, WWNorton, 2002), p. 13.

FOOTBALL; FREE MARKETS; MARKETS, REGULATED

20040310

Two kinds of market friction arise from the uneven supply of information.  There are search costs:  the time, effort, and money spent learning what is available where for how much.  And there are evaluation costs, arising from the difficulties buyers have in assessing quality.  A successful market has mechanisms that hold down the costs of transacting that come from the dispersion of information.

Reinventing the Bazaar (PQ300, WWNorton, 2002), p. 44.

COSTS; INFORMATION; EVALUATION; INFORMATION; MARKETS; QUALITY; SEARCHING

20040325

The mere existence of choice does not in itself ensure that the market operates competively.

Reinventing the Bazaar (PQ300, WWNorton, 2002), p. 44.

CHOICES; COMPETITION; MARKETS

20040325

Marketplace confidence rests on rules and customs that give even unscrupulous people reason to keep their word.

Reinventing the Bazaar (PQ300, WWNorton, 2002), p. 54.

BUSINESS ETHICS; CONFIDENCE, MARKETPLACE; HONESTY - BUSINESS; REGULATIONS

20040326

Most successful market economies have antitrust laws and a regulatory authority to implement them.

Reinventing the Bazaar (PQ300, WWNorton, 2002), p. 73.

ANTITRUST LAWS; MARKET ECONOMIES; REGULATIONS

20040803

McNabb, Bill.

You defend God like you defend a lion--you get out of his way.

Wittenburg Door(June, 1988)

in: "Reflections", Christianity Today (October 20, 1989), p. 34.

GOD--DEFENSE; LIONS; RELIGIONS--DEFENSE

19891029

MacNeil, Eoin.

The term Celtic is indicative of language, not of race.

Phrases of Irish History.  (1919),

In:  Ellis, Peter Berresford.  Dictionary of Celtic Mythology.  (FIULGL, ABC Clio, 1989), p. 2.

CELTS - DEFINITIONS; LANGUAGES; RACES

20051013

Mackey, Louis.

The essence of freedom, aesthetically conceived, is to enjoy having one's own way, or by simple substitution, enjoying oneself enjoying oneself.  Desire and enjoyment are only free if they are indifferent to what is desired and enjoyed.  One must want without needing and enjoy without being gratified.

Kierkegaard:  A Kind of Poet (PM126, 1971), p. 8.

DESIRE; ENJOYMENT; FREEDOM - ART; INDIFFERENCE

19871224

Mackintosh, Elizabeth , aka. Gordon Daviot and Josephine Tey.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy?  And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

The Franchise Affair (HQ264, Folio Soc., 2001 [orig. published 1948]), p. 3.

WEALTH

20040202

It was amazing how ingrained the respect for property was in the English soul....

The Franchise Affair (HQ264, Folio Soc., 2001 [orig. published 1948]), p. 157.

WEALTH

20040206

Mallarmé, Stephane.

To name an object is to destroy three quarters of the poem's delight.  This after all is made from the pleasure of guessing little by little.  Suggestion:  that is what dreaming is.

In:  Francine-Claire Legrand, Symbolism in Belgium (FIUGEN, Brussels: Laconti, 1972), p. 8.

DREAMS, NATURE OF ; NAMES; POETRY; SUGGESTION

19940108

Malone, Dumas.

Like his kindred spirits he adopted certain confident hypotheses about universal natural law and natural rights; and with these an attitude of hostility to arbitrary power of any sort, a belief in the vast improvability if not the perfectibility of man, and an impulse toward humanitarianism.

Jefferson the Virginian (HK097, Little, Brown, ), p. 102.

HUMANITARIANISM; JEFFERSON, THOMAS; RIGHTS, NATURAL

19841027

Malraux;, André.

And it is possible that, in the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questions is more important than his answers.

Anti-memoires, p. 6.

ANSWERS; DESTINY, HUMAN; QUESTIONS

19740000

Doubtless every culture, visible or invisible, is impelled by its own conception of death.

Anti-memoires, p. ?.

In:  Herm, Gerhard, The Celts (HJ121, St. Martins Press, 1976), p. 141.

CULTURES; DEATH

19790000

Martyr, Justin.

Whatever things have been well said by all men belong to us Christians.

Apology, II, p. xiii,

In:  Lewis, C. S.  The Discarded Image (FIUL, Cambridge, 1967), p. 49.

CHRISTIANS AND LITERATURE; LITERATURE

19850311

Mastermanr, J. C., Sir.

A lie when it is needed will only be believed if it rests on a firm foundation of previous truth.

The Double-Cross System.  (HR250, Folio Soc., 2007), p. 20.

BELIEVEABILITY; LIES; TRUTH

20080104

So we come to the provisional—and admittedly theoretical—conclusion:  in peacetime espionage is easy and profitable, counter-espionage is difficult and unrewarding; in wartime / espionage is difficult and usually unprofitable, counter-espionage is comparatively easy and yields the richest returns.

The Double-Cross System.  (HR250, Folio Soc., 2007), pp. 195-6.

COUNTER-ESPIONAGE; ESPIONAGE; PEACE; WARS

20080121

Mauduit, J.A

The Celts were the most adventurous of all the barbarian peoples.

L'épopée des Celtes,

In:  Gerhard Herm, The Celts (HJ121, 1976), p. 14.

BARBARIANS; CELTS

n.d.

Mauraic, François

Faith is a virtue--one of the three virtues called theological, and the first of the three....By virtue is also meant use of the will, a meritorious and difficult use.

What I Believe.  (FIUGL, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1965), p. 3.

FAITH; VIRTUES; WILL

20050728

The closer I live to God, the more intimate my sacramental life becomes, and the less need I feel for ceremonies.

What I Believe.  (FIUGL, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1965), p. 9.

CEREMONIES; GOD & MAN; INTIMACY

20050729

Where do this love and this grace come from?  And why haven't all received it?  But what do we know about this?  What do we know about the grace bestowed on each one under many disguises, which ahs been refused or accepted in a proportion God alone knows?

What I Believe.  (FIUGL, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1965), p. 18.

GRACE; KNOWLEDGE; LOVE; OPPORTUNITIES

20050729

A human being is a unique copy and has never been reproduced since the world has been the world.

What I Believe.  (FIUGL, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1965), p. 20.

COPIES; HUMANS; UNIQUENESS

20050729

It is not fear, in the sense give it by Lucretius, which creates gods, but the horror of the void, or rather its absurdity.

What I Believe.  (FIUGL, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1965), p. 33.

ABSURDITY; FEAR; GODS; RELIGIONS; VOID, THE

20050729

The light I have received, to which I have consented, made me attentive, for as long as I live, to the contradiction in myself and in all men:  between infamy and holiness, between brutality and love in the same being.  The man who has seen this once will see it forever.

What I Believe.  (FIUGL, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1965), p. 36.

BRUTALITY; CONTRADICTIONS; GOOD & EVIL; HOLINESS, CHRISTIAN; HUMANS; INFAMY; LIGHT; LOVE

20050729

What is old age?  An absence which is death already.

What I Believe.  (FIUGL, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1965), p. 39.

ABSENCES; DEATH; ELDERLY--DEFINITIONS; OLD-TIMERS; SENIOR ADULTS

20050729

May, Rollo.

For curious reasons we are shy about sharing the things that matter most.  Hence people short-circuit the more "dangerous" building of a relationship by leaping immediately into bed.  After all, the body is an object and can be treated mechanically.

The Courage to Create (HJ133, Norton, 1975), pp. 9.

INTIMACY; RELATIONSHIPS, PERSONAL; SEX

19800727

But intimacy that begins and remains on the physical level tends to become inauthentic, and we later find ourselves fleeing from the emptiness.

The Courage to Create (HJ133, Norton, 1975), pp. 9.

EMPTINESS; INTIMACY; RELATIONSHIPS, PERSONAL; RELATIONSHIPS, PHYSICAL; SEX

19800727

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomena than what used to be called will power.  Purpose involves all levels of experience.  We cannot will to have insights.  We cannot will creativity.  But we can will to give ourselves to the encounter with intensity or dedication and commitment.

The Courage to Create (HJ133, Norton, 1975), pp. 40.

COMMITMENT; CREATIVITY; DEDICATION; INSIGHTS; PURPOSE; WILL POWER

19800514

There are now data in Rorschach responses, for example, that indicate that people can more accurately observe precisely when they are emotionally involved--that is, reason works better when emotions are present;.... It may well be that reason works best in the state of ecstasy.

The Courage to Create.  (HJ133, Norton, 1975), pp. 43.

ACCURACY; EMOTIONS; OBSERVATIONS; REASON

19800611

I define this unconscious as the potentialities for awareness or action which the individual cannot or will not actualize.

The Courage to Create.  (HJ133, Norton, 1975), pp. 52.

ACTIONS; AWARENESS; POTENTIAL; UNCONSCIOUS, THE - DEFINITIONS

19800611

...ecstasy--the uniting of unconscious experience with consciousness, a union that is not in abstracto, but a dynamic, immediate fusion.

The Courage to Create (HJ133, Norton, 1975), pp. 57.

CONSCIOUSNESS; ECSTASY; HOLISM; UNCONSCIOUSNESS

19800611

To the extent that we lose this free, original creativity of the spirit as it is exemplified in poetry and music / and art, we shall also lose our scientific creativity.

The Courage to Create (HJ133, Norton, 1975), pp. 68-9.

ART; CREATIVITY; MUSIC; POETRY; SCIENCE

19800800

...the object you see is a product both of your subjectivity and external reality

The Courage to Create (HJ133, Norton, 1975), p. 121.

FACTS; OBJECTIVITY; PERCEPTION; REALITY; SUBJECTIVITY

19800825

Our perception is determined by our imagination as well as by the empirical facts of the outside world.

The Courage to Create (HJ133, Norton, 1975), p. 122.

FACTS; IMAGINATION; PERCEPTION; REALITY, EXTERNAL

19800825

Form is not a mere lopping off of meaning that you don't have room to put into your poem; it is an aid to finding new meaning, a stim/ulus to condensing your meaning, to simplifying and purifying it, and to discovering on a more universal dimension the essence you wish to express.

The Courage to Create (HJ133, Norton, 1975), pp. 122-123.

CREATIVITY; EXPRESSION; FORM; POETRY; MEANING

19801210

May, Rollo, continued:

It is ironic indeed that those psychologists who really had to be "hard-headed," that is, to deal with actual suffering people whose anxiety and distress would not be calmed by abstractions or theories, were the ones who could not escape becoming concerned with symbols.

"The Significance of Symbols,"

In:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 13.

PSYCHIATRY & SYMBOLS; PSYCHOLOGISTS; SUFFERING; SYMBOLS

19820000

I would suggest that the difference between a "sign" and a genuine "symbol" lies at this point:  When a word retains its original power to grasp us, it is still a symbol, but when this is lost it deteriorates into being only a sign; and by the same token, when a myth loses its power to demand some stand from us, it has become only a tale.

"The Significance of Symbols,"

In:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 17.

MYTHS - DEFINITIONS; POWER; SIGNS - DEFINITIONS; SYMBOLS - DEFINITIONS; TALES - DEFINITIONS

19820000

[An] observation impressed upon us by our psycholanalytic work is that contemporary man suffers from the deterioration and breakdown of the central symbols in modern Western culture.

"The Significance of Symbols,"

In:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 22.

SYMBOLS - FAILURES; TWENTIETH CENTURY - CRITICISM; WESTERN CULTURE

19820000

This is a central aspect of the "emptiness" experienced by so many contemporary sensisitive persons; they can transcend the concrete situation indeed, but they land in a symbolic vacuum.

"The Significance of Symbols,"

In:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 23.

DEMYTHOLOGIZATION; EMPTINESS; SENSITITIVITY; SITUATIONS; SYMBOLISM - HUMAN NEEDS; TRANSCENDENCE; VACUUMS

19820000

It is only on the basis of some such faith that the individual can genuinely accept and overcome the earlier infantile deprivations without the continued harboring of resentment all through life, which has the effect of holding him back in the future.  In this sense the past can be accepted and does not block the future.

"The Significance of Symbols,"

In:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 48.

DEPRIVATIONS; PAST, OVERCOMING THE; RESENTMENT

19820000

Meggs, William Joel.

The concept of chemical air fresheners is highly flawed.  It doesn't make sense that one can freshen air polluted with irritant chemicals by adding additional irritant chemicals. ...One study found that 10 percent of the population has inflammatory reactions to air fresheners.

The Inflammation Cure.  (HQ288, Contemporary Bks, 2004), p. 134.

AIR FRESHENERS; CHEMICALS; INFLAMMATION; POLLUTION, AIR

20040619

Merton, Thomas.

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey.  The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage.  One can have one without the other.  It is best to have both.

Mystics and Zen Masters.  (NY: Dell Publixhing, 1967), p. 92;

In:  Clift, Jean Darby, and Clift, Wallace B.  The Archetype of Pilrimage.  (FIUGL, Paulist, 1996), p. 168.

JOURNEYS, INNER; JOURNEYS, OUTER; PILGRIMAGES; SYMBOLISM; SYMBOLS: PILGRIMAGES

20051020

The convenient tools of language enable us to decide beforehand what we think things mean, and tempt us all to easily to see things only in a way that fits our logical preconceptions and our verbal formulas.

Zen and the Birds of Appetite.  (NY: New Directions, 1968), pp. 48-49;

In:  Powell, James N.  The Tao of Symbols. (FIUGL, William Morrow, 1982), p. 224.

FORMULAS, VERBAL; LANGUAGE; MEANING; PRECONCEPTIONS; TEMPTATIONS

20050705

Miesel, Sandra.

Existence is a pattern with no ultimate transcendent goal, no purpose other than to be itself, a doomed but lovely candle in the darkness.

"Afterword:  the Price of Buying Time",

in:  Anderson, Poul.  A Stone in Heaven. (PJ236,), p. 251.

CANDLES; DOOM; EXISTENCE - HUMANIST PERSPECTIVE; GOALS; LIFE - PURPOSE

19810000

Mill, John Stuart.

Ages are no more infallible than individuals; every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd; and it is certain that many opinions now general will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

"On Liberty",

in:  Spinrad, Leonard, and Spinrad, Thelma, eds.  Complete Speaker's Almanac. (UoL,), p. ?.

CHANGE; IDEAS; OPINIONS - CHANGES

19840531

Mixon, Jerry W.

The devil tempts us to bring us down, but God tests us to bring us up.

Along the Way,

in:  "Reflections," Christianity Today (September 22, 1989), p. 35.

DEVIL; GOD; TEMPTATIONS; TESTING (SPIRITUAL)

19890921

Mizner, Wilson.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

In:  DiGaetani, John L., et al.  Writing Out Loud. (FIUL, 1983), p. 13.

KNOWLEDGE; LISTENING; POPULARITY

19870526

Moltman, Jürgen

Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world.  They are the only truly "natural" things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.

The Way of Jesus Christ.  (??) p. 99,

In:  Yancey, Philip.  The Jesus I Never Knew. (HQ462, Zondervan, 1995), p. 183.

DEMONIC; JESUS THE CHRIST; NATURAL - DEFINITIONS; SUPERNATURAL - DEFINITIONS; WOUNDS

20050730

Monod, Jacques.

Objectivity nevertheless obliges us to recognize the teleonomic character of living organisms, to admit that in their structure and performance they decide on and pursue a purpose.  Here, therefore, at least in appearance, lies a profound epistemological contradiction.

Chance and Necessity. (1972) p. 31,

In:  Davies, Paul.  The Cosmic Blueprint. (PM279, 1988), p. 96.

CAUSATION; LIFE - PURPOSE; SCIENCE - EPISTEMOLOGY; TELEOLOGY

19890903

Montagna, William.

Furthermore, I have long known that it is more difficult to receive than to give.

"Time to Close the Book,"

In:  Primate News. (19:3/4, 1981, December), p. 23.

GIVING; RECEIVING

19890818

Morgan, Robert J.

One of the strange things about the "attitude of gratitude" is that we tend to exhibit it in reverse proportion to the number of blessings received.

Then Sings My Soul.  (HQ447, T Nelson, 2003), p. 149.

BLESSINGS; GRATITUDE; THANKFULNESS-

20060514

Morris, Chris, and Morris, Janet

...wisdom wan't what got people excited.  What got people excited was hearing what they wanted to hear, was having license to do what they'd wanted to do all along;  was, in short, more absolute power, more control over everyone not in this room.

"Mystery",

In:  Cherryh, C. J., ed.  Smuggler's Gold. (PM260, DAW, 1988), p. 152.

CONTROL; EXCITEMENT; GREED; POWER; WISDOM

19881201

Morris, John.

If he [the historian] fails to offer clear conclusions from the evidence he knows, he infects his readers with false beliefs and woolly notions; if he leaves no conclusions to correct, the importance of new evidence is easily missed.  He must acknowledge his own sympathies as openly as a Tacitus or a Bede, for the historian who rashly pretends to be free of bias unconsciously surrenders to the superficial assumptions of his own day; and is therefore always misleading, and usually dull.

The Age of Arthur (HJ118, Scribners, 1973), p. xv.

BEDE; CONCLUSIONS; HISTORIANS; OBJECTIVITY; TACITUS

19851208

The mark of a fully bilingual man, rare today, is that he does not notice which language he is speaking.

The Age of Arthur (HJ118, Scribners, 1973), p. 406.

BILINGUALISM; LANGUAGES

19860223

In settled ages men's aspirations and beliefs are limited by the ideas that they have inherited.  Original thinkers may modify and extend their inheritance, but they cannot transform a society whose assumptions are taken for granted by the majority of their fellow-men.

The Age of Arthur (HJ118, Scribners, 1973), p. 507.

BELIEFS; CHANGE; IDEAS; IGNORANCE; PEACE; SOCIETY

19860223

Morris, Steve R.

The differenct between righteousness and self-righteousness is very simple:  the self-righteous display their "right-ness"; righteousness is both bestowed and declared by others, never the "self."

"Notecard," 840701

RIGHTEOUSNESS; SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

19840701

Morton, H. V.

It was a moody holiday, and I followed the roads; some of them led me aright and some astray.  The first were the most useful; the others were the most interesting.

In Search of England (HQ399, Folio Soc., 2002 [1927]), p. xvii.

ROADS; TRAVEL; VACATIONS

20041222

They had come prepared to be bored; they stayed strangely thrilled by this man's enthusiasm and by the pictures he called up.  That was it:  he humanized the history book.

In Search of England (HQ399, Folio Soc., 2002 [1927]), p. 20.

BOREDOM; HISTORY; TEACHERS

20041223

I understood that there was religion in this gardening; that to him every new touch of beauty which he brought to birth out of this rich earth was like a psalm of praise; that year after year he had added beauty to beauty round the House of God.

In Search of England (HQ399, Folio Soc., 2002 [1927]), p. 94.

BEAUTY; CHURCHES; GARDENS; PSALMS; RELIGION

20041228

The younger generation is different, less individual, already in line with the sad, modern tendency towards standardization.

In Search of England (HQ399, Folio Soc., 2002 [1927]), p. 132.

INDIVIDUALISM; MODERN; STANDARDIZATION; YOUTH

20041230

Muller, Wayne.

It dawns on me why prayer is the only reasonable practice....
    It is not about our skill or our will,
but rather our humility and helplessness laid bare.

Sabbath,

In:  Crosby, Cindy.  By Willoway Brook (HQ279, Paraclete Pr., 2003), p. 2.

HELPLESSNESS; HUMILITY; PRAYERS; SKILLS; WILL POWER

20040125

Murray, Andrew.

In creating man with a free will and making him a partner in the rule of the earth, God limited himself.  He made himself dependent on what man would do.  Man by his prayer would hold the measure of what God could do in blessing.

Every-Day with Andrew Murray,

in:  Christianity Today (March 6, 1987), p. 41.

BLESSINGS; CREATION; FREE WILL; GOD - SELF-LIMITATION; MAN - BIBLICAL VIEW; PRAYER

19870316

Murray, Robert.

As long as human expression has been recorded, men have loved to multiply names, titles or symbols in the language of both love and worship.  It seems almost instinctive, the response to a need of the heart.

Symbols of Church and Kingdom.  (FIUGL, Cambridge U. Pr., 1975), p. 159.

EXPRESSIONS; LOVE; MULTIPLICATION; NAMES; NEEDS; SYMBOLS; TITLES; WORSHIP

20070402

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