In conclusion, never doom. Any blow struck against entropy, be it the resistance of just one man to the gathering dark, is a victory in itself. https://t.co/Vg69RVfRxm
Act like the person you are, not the way they make you act. Noble people shouldn’t have even an atom of baseness. Nobility scorns villainy. You should be able to boast that if gallantry, generosity, and faith were lost in the world, they could be found again in your own breast.
Despicable. Tolkien's point was that hope can survive and bring victory when to mortal eyes all seems lost. Hitchens' nostalgia has grown to a damnable vice by leading him to cowardice rather than action. The battle is not lost while England and her virtues live on in one heart.
I am now often called Denethor. OK, my response This metaphor makes you what, a hobbit? Well, Mr hairy feet, Helm's Deep surrendered years ago, the elves have shoved off , Gandalf's working for the Equal Opportunities Commission, the ents have been ground to powder, Gondor has joined the Mordorian Union and Wormtongue is running the Shire. Where's your battle?
Tolkien was clear that Middle Earth is our earth and that hobbits are just smaller versions of the Englishmen whose unexpected courage he had seen in the Great War. The Shire can yet be scoured. https://t.co/bJX3x7FXJ4
@JimmyThomist@truckdriverpleb I'm ignorant, but it looks like until quite recently CIC officers had to meet the usual CAF fitness standards? https://t.co/dPptnYZVqK
Astonishing condescension and arrogance. I'm baffled by clergy who ignore what faithful laity want, then blame said laity for going elsewhere. Don't you want to save souls? Isn't your job to make it easier for people who are seeking the means of salvation (here, absolution)?
Similar is the attempt to force TLMers to the NO, or to attend their territorial parish. You're not dealing with cowed Irish peasants any more. You can only evangelise through persuasion. If you want people to come to confession, Mass, etc you have to pay attention to their wants
@morayita123 In the book, the kids walked the plank due to their refusal to say “down with the king” and one of the lost boys defiantly cries “Rule Britannia!”
The Brits were built different then.
Act like the person you are, not the way they make you act. Noble people shouldn’t have even an atom of baseness. Nobility scorns villainy. You should be able to boast that if gallantry, generosity, and faith were lost in the world, they could be found again in your own breast.
@CatholicArena Ridiculous post, he was a traitor and terrorist not an "humanitarian". Chesterton was just typically naïve in appealing for clemency for this despicable wretch
@Charles_Reding Here at least under our no fault regime infidelity is legally irrelevant to equalization of net family property, counsel would have been wasting the court's time
@hf_222222 Because (oddly for a horror director) he can't grasp fear apart from physical danger, he creates tension by repeatedly dangling people over cliffs and makes Nazgul, balrog, Sauron physical more than psychological threats. Etc., etc.
@hf_222222 For example, because Jackson is unable to understand hereditary monarchy, he showed Aragorn as developing into a leader rather than being born one.
‘There was an old-fashioned sofa in his living room with a teddy bear,’ Roman Angulanza recalled. ‘Ratzinger went up to it and said: “May I introduce you: Teddy, this is Mr Angulanza. Mr Angulanza, this is my Teddy, who has been with me since my childhood days.”
@christian_state@BaldwinIVofJer@cath_menarion Lateran IV was clearly in the wrong considering that there is even a type of falcon specifically reserved for clergymen (the sparrowhawk)...moreover, I am quite sure we need more not fewer "hunting parsons"