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Packer, J.I.

Had we no sense of humor we should have no sense of proportion (humor being an awareness of disproportion). And without a sense of proportion our sinful hearts, tempted as they always are to play God, would take themselves far too seriously.

"Humor Is a Funny Thing,"

in: Christianity Today.  (October 22, 1990) p. 15.

HUMOR; PROPORTION

19901000

Pargeter, Edith.  (pseud.: Peters, Ellis.)

But remember it's a kindness sometimes to accept help, a kindness to the giver.

The Pilgrim of Hate.  (PQ527x, Mysterious Pr., 1984) p. 70.

ACCEPTANCE; GIVING; HELP; KINDNESS; RECEIVING

20050826

Not that he expected much; he had been in the world fifty-five years, and learned to temper all his expectations, bad or good.

"The Price of Light,"

In:  A Rare Benedictine.  (PQ500, Mysterious Pr., 1991) p. 61.

EXPECTATIONS

20050624

Parrott, James R.

Reference departments have always been concerned about offering the best service possible, given their circumstances.  The situation has simply become more difficult in the last decade, as departments have been caught between the demand for fiscal restraint and the demand for more reference service.

"REFSIM: A Bimodal Knowledge-based Reference Training and Consultation System,"

in: RSR, 1661(1988) p. 61.

LIBRARIES - SERVICES; LIBRARIES - STAFFING; REFERENCE SERVICES - 1980'S

19880712

Patterson, Ben.

The Bible is full of answers to the problems and conundrums of life's waitings.  But they are useless unless we have first worked through the problems.

Waiting.  (HR175, Intervarsity Pr., 1989). P. 14.

ANSWERS; BIBLE; PROBLEMS; WAITING

20070310

But the triumph and failure always go together in the wait of faith.... Show me a person who has had no swings between victory and defeat, and I'll show you a person who has never really trusted God with his or her life.

Waiting.  (HR175, Intervarsity Pr., 1989). P. 83.

DEFEAT; FAILURES - SPIRITUAL; FAITH; TRUST; VICTORIES - SPIRITUAL; WAITING

20070421

Faith is not our ability to hold on to God, but simply trusting in his ability to hold on to us.

Waiting.  (HR175, Intervarsity Pr., 1989). P. 86.

FAITH - DEFINITIONS; GOD - ABILITIES; TRUST

20070421

When I really believe that I am secure in the loving arms of my heavenly Father, then I am finally free to stop worrying about how I am doing and can start being concerned about how you are doing.  This is where faith and ethics connect.

Waiting.  (HR175, Intervarsity Pr., 1989). P. 94.

CONCERNS; ETHICS; FAITH; SECURITY; WORRY

20070428

Patterson, John.

And surely no greater service can be rendered a people than the displacement of utilitarian by ideal ethics.

The Wisdom of Israel.  (PG066), p. 14.

ETHICS; IDEALISM; PRAGMATISM

19850706

Peattie, Donald Culross.

The oldest voice in the world is the wind.

Weather: A National Journal, (Weldon Owen Pty, Ltd., 1996), p. 24.

In:  Cindy Crosby.  By Willoway Brook.  (HQ279, Paraclete Pr., 2003) p. 24.

VOICES; WIND

20040201

Phillips, J. B.

And on those unimaginative people to whom the spiritual has always sounded fanciful and unreal, it is slowly dawning that the physical world which is so real and tangible to them is most uncomfortably unreliable.

Your God Is Too Small.  (PL018, Macmillan, 1961), p. 68.

COSMOLOGY; REALITY; SPIRITUAL WORLD; WORLD, PHYSICAL

19841230

The world frequently conspires to muzzle or destroy its truest seers.  The way of the prophet and reformer has usually been hard and not infrequently fatal.

Your God Is Too Small.  (PL018, Macmillan, 1961), p. 80.

PERSECUTION; PROPHETS; REFORMERS; SEERS; TRUTH

19841230

Piggott, Stuart.

It was an heroic society with a warrior elite, and for such, raids and wars between tribes, clans, septs or families provide the only means whereby the aristocratic values can be demonstrated and prestige maintained.  In itself it was incompatible with civilized government.

The Druids.  (HL055, Thames & Hudson, 1968) p. 46.

CELTS - CIVILIZATION; CELTS - GOVERNMENT; HEROIC SOCIETIES - VALUES

19850620

Planck, Max.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

In: Estling, Ralph.  "The Principle of Inverse Irreversibility,"

New Scientist 96: 810 (December, 1982) p. 810.

GENERATIONS; SUCCESS; TRUTH, SCIENTIFIC

19830400

Plato.

Is not the love of Wisdom a practice of death?

Phaedo, 81A;

In:  Lewis, C.S.  The Abolition of Man.  (PH171, ), p. 121.

DEATH; WISDOM

19840000

Polyani, Michael

Maxims are rules of thumb created by those who know a skill and are used to guide those learning that skill....Maxims can be false as well as true, and only intuitive understanding of the work make it possible to apply maxims correctly.

Paraphrased from:  Personal Knowledge.  (UoChicago Pr, 1962), p. ?

In:  Hall, James A.  Clinical Uses of Dreams.  (FIUGL, Grune & Stratton, 1977), p. xxvii.

MAXIMS - DEFINITIONS; SKILLS

20050422

Powell, James N.

Symbols--visions, dreams, myths, languages, philosophies, theories--are they content to remain mere phantoms, or do they become as tangible as human flesh?  And do not minds, bodies, and weapons then become their very nerves, flesh, and limbs?

The Tao of Symbols.  (FIUGL, Wm Morrow, 1982) p. 15.

BODIES; DREAMS; FLESH; LANGUAGES; MINDS; MYTHS; PHANTOMS; SYMBOLS; TANGIBLE OBJECTS; VISIONS; WEAPONS

20050308

...it is here we find a clue to that activity which separates us from the beasts--the activity of symbolizing.  The human animal is, if nothing else, the symbolizing animal, and it is the act of symbolizing that is not only most characteristic but also most fundamental to human intelligence.

The Tao of Symbols.  (FIUGL, Wm Morrow, 1982) p. 33.

BEASTS; HUMANS - DEFINITIONS; INTELLIGENCE; SYMBOLIZING

20050413

An utterance is a mere signal, like a green traffic light, signifying something to be done or noticed instantly, a stimulus for action rather than a medium for reflections and mental exploration.

The Tao of Symbols.  (FIUGL, Wm Morrow, 1982) p. 34.

ACTIONS; SIGNALS - DEFINITIONS; STIMULI; TRAFFIC LIGHTS

20050413

Deep silence enjoys an eloquence of its own.

The Tao of Symbols.  (FIUGL, Wm Morrow, 1982) p. 48.

ELOQUENCE; SILENCE

20050423

In Blake's poetry, however, Eternity is spoken of as a place, and has a spatial, though infinite, / dimension.  Eternity is then something of a nontemporal landscape.... Eternity is not the endless duration of time.  It is the absence of time.

The Tao of Symbols.  (FIUGL, Wm Morrow, 1982) pp. 166-7..

BLAKE, WILLIAM; DURATION; ETERNITY - DEFINITIONS; PLACES; TIME

20050623

Both the yogis and the Zen masters realized long ago that both the demonic and the divine dwell in language--that language is the obstacle walling the seeker from divinity and the very form in which divinity is revealed.

The Tao of Symbols.  (FIUGL, Wm Morrow, 1982) p. 223..

LANGUAGE; OBSTACLES; REVELATION; YOGIS; ZEN

20050705

Pratchett, Terry.

Hard to have faith, ain't it, when you read too many books.

Carpe Jugulum.  (2000, PQ089) p. 278.

FAITH; READING; BOOKS

20020627

And no practical definition of freedom would be completely without the freedom to take the consequences.  Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all others are based.

Going Postal.  (HQ408, Harper Collins, 2004) p. 15.

CONSEQUENCES; FREEDOM

20041110

There's a kind of big, outdoors sort of man who's got no patience at all with prevaricators and fibbers, but will applaud any man who can tell an outrageous whopper with a gleam in his eye.

Going Postal.  (HQ408, Harper Collins, 2004) p. 221.

LIES & LIARS;TALL TALES; WHOPPERS

20041103

No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot.  It wasn't even your fault, no one listened to you.  Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared.  That was how much they didn't care.

Going Postal.  (HQ408, Harper Collins, 2004) p. 329.

ADMINISTRATORS; EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH; HEADQUARTERS; EMPLOYEE-EMPLOYER RELATIONSHIPS

20041106

"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity.  All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness.  Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul.  Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality."

Guards! Guards!.  (PQ148, Harper Torch, 2001) p. 337.

CREATIVITY; DARKNESS OF THE SOUL; DRAGONS; EVIL; GODS; MASS PRODUCTION; PEOPLE; SIN

20050504

There isn't a way things should  be.  There's just what happens, and what we do.

Hat Full of Sky.  (HQ367, Harper Collins, 2004) p.86.

OUGHT TO BE; PRAGMATISM; RIGHT & WRONG

20040806

Credulous:  having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

Hogfather.  (1996, HQ064) p.140.

CREDULOUS;OPINIONS - SIMPLE; SOPHISTICATION

20020126

When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

Jingo.  (1997, PP402) p. 217.

DESERTS; GODS; INFINITY; RELIGIONS

20010211

Creators aren't gods.  They make places, which is quite hard.  It's men that make gods.  This explains a lot.

The Last Continent.  (1998, HP382) p. 46.

CREATORS; GODS; MAN

20000711

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

The Light Fantastic in Rincewind the Wizzard.  (1986, 1999, HP310) p. 342.

HOME; TRAVEL

19990920

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing.  It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed anymore.

Pyramids in Tales of the Discworld.  (2000, HQ036) p. 129.

BELIEF--LIMITS; EXPERIENCE; SEEING IS BELIEVING

20010715

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Reaper Man.  (HQ172, ROC, 1991) p. 170.

MEANING; METAPHORS; REALITY; SYMBOLS

20030313

He'd found a hard truth less hard than an easy lie.

The Truth.  (2000, HQ056) p. 36.

TRUTH; LIES

20011207

People think that stories are shaped by people.  In fact, it's the other way around.

Witches Abroad.  (PQ194, Harper Torch, 2002) p. 2.

CAUSE & EFFECT; CHARACTER; STORIES

20031201

Price, J.M.

An effective organization for world peace will be established not through political diplomats around a peace table, but through Christian teachers in all lands, teaching citizens in Sunday school and public school the sacredness of human life.

Jesus the Teacher.  (SWBTSL, Convention Press, 195?) pp. 123-4

CHRISTIANS; DIPLOMATS; EDUCATION; PEACE; SUNDAY SCHOOLS

19770000

The teacher is the guardian of society, and the progress of civilization depends on the battle between schoolmasters.

Jesus the Teacher.  (SWBTSL, Convention Press, 195?) p. 125.

CIVILIZATON & CULTURE; GUARDIANS; PROGRESS; SOCIETY; TEACHERS

19770000

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