...in an email from Iowa this morning -
"If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about."
~Mere Christianity
Amen.
~Mad(elyn)
Remember I blog myself over at www.xanga.com/madewyn
Monday, September 22, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
From http://www.wheresmydamnanswer.com/WP02/?p=805 Carol Woodliff
"For my book, I was researching the Franklin Delano Roosevelt quote, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and I ran across the full text of the 1933 inaugural address from which that quote is taken.
As I read this today with all the news about the financial markets, I realized that it is good to have a sense of history and where we’ve been and where we are now. Seems much of what FDR wrote about is in play today.
In the speech, FDR said:
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Seems we are still working on that one, eh?"
Something to think about, huh?
Remember I blog my own stuff over at www.xanga.com/madewyn.
"For my book, I was researching the Franklin Delano Roosevelt quote, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and I ran across the full text of the 1933 inaugural address from which that quote is taken.
As I read this today with all the news about the financial markets, I realized that it is good to have a sense of history and where we’ve been and where we are now. Seems much of what FDR wrote about is in play today.
In the speech, FDR said:
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Seems we are still working on that one, eh?"
Something to think about, huh?
Remember I blog my own stuff over at www.xanga.com/madewyn.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
from http:/falwyn.wordpress.com:
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened to you, and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
-Ernest Hemingway
Remember i'm usually over at www.xanga.com/madewyn where I use my own words much more than here - which is not so much.
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