@ConradMBlack I came across this quote from Mortimer Adler, in "The Reading Life" by C.S. Lewis
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
@EliasMezaCota Find out who Shahpour Bakhtiar & Anwar Sadat were, and who killed them. Then spread the word, because there is a lot of laziness in the world.
@Euan_MacDonald What I find chilling is, Putin succeeded where Zhirinovsky failed. Putin was seen as a tough guy, whereas Zhirinovsky was seen as someone portraying a tough guy.
offered by Solzhenitsyn and C.S. Lewis have to be learned. Solzhenitsyn about the battle in each heart between good and evil, and C.S. Lewis, in "The abolition of man" about men without chests. Otherwise, what Nathaniel said about Nazareth will be applied to Russia.
@albats I read "The stain of bucha will stay with russians forever", and I have to agree. The stain of Auschwitz is still assigned to Germany. Real Perestroika has to take place in every Russian, not just talking about it. For that to take place, the lessons
🇭🇺Pres. Viktor Orbán says Putin agrees to Normandy 4 format ceasefire talks in Budapest
https://t.co/KGoOT15LyW
Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to 🇺🇦Pres.'s Office head, called Orbán's statement "media hype" - no talks were offered via official channels
https://t.co/yXyJZ3MK1i
@anders_aslund@McFaul Why stop with the Metropolitans? All the way down to the lowest levels of clergy. Patriarch Kirill has more in common with the German clergy that approved of the deaths of Bonhoeffer & Kolbe, than Bonhoeffer & Kolbe.