Previous William Thomas Sherman Info Page postings, quotes, observations, etc.
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(I couldn't sleep, so I thought I would do some posting; hence the following
miscellany.)
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And did you happen to remember this?
wis.7.30 For after this cometh night, but no evil can overcome wisdom.
wis.10.13 She [Wisdom] forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit.
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"Like people, like priest."
~ from a character in one of Erasmus' colloquies.
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O.K. so let me get this straight: they are credible and to be trusted because they are extremely violent and can do incredible and absolutely amazing magic tricks.
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Who is so mad that would prefer evil over what is right, cruelty over mercy, crime over justice, falsehood over the truth? And yet still they continue to look to the devil for goodness.
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No one is so great in this world that they cannot go higher or be made to look less than they are, and as great and successful as anyone is, they are still fettered to a fallen world.
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Yes, it is Christian to consort or reach out to sinners, but not if doing so means or entails spurning or making an outcast of the honest and conscientiously rational.
But who needs honest or right reason, they say, if we have the ghost from outer space on our side?
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The atheist can claim what hope?
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What you can say about them is this. They always have "to get" somebody, and indeed will always be like that.
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Too often in life one only learn later what you they needed to know before. On the positive side however, it is not necessarily impossible to avert or prevent this being the case.
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Art should serve nature and morals, not morals and nature art.
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"Don't worry, we won't hurt you!" - John Carradine abducting a stranded woman driver and taking her to Bela Lugosi, in "Voodoo Man" (1944).
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Lord of the Trolls merely, and yet he would rule and be supreme over all!
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Some people are so dumb that they are no help at all.
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"[T]he Christian religion when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have inveloped it, and brought to the original purity & simplicity of its benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, & the freest expression of the human mind,” ~ Thomas Jefferson to Moses Robinson, March 23, 1801,
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Historically speaking, Christianity has been foremost and primarily an urban religion; perhaps implying something bad about cities.
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The scourging and mockery of Christ by the soldiers and or lackeys of the Sanhedrin is a behavior that has its origin not really among men or people, but in persons from hell.
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Invariably the devil attacks most what good people love best.
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Where else in ancient writings but in the gospels is demonic possession spoken of as a real life empirical fact?
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The more evil they do the dirtier they get. The dirtier they get the more sick.
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Why and how is it about this day and age (of say the last 25+ years) such that something 1 out of 5 men in public eye have gone completely bald?
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Who was it that ruined life for everyone? The one who could not stop forcing himself on people.
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What, when all is said and done, have we come to learn? He cannot deal with his problems without getting violent.
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Let them have their way as much as they wish and desire, and still they never would or ever know how to be happy.
[ch. 19]
...The human race, moreover, when in a state of mental alienation, had to be cured by methods which the Word saw would aid in bringing back those so afflicted to a sound state of mind. But Celsus says also, that “one acts thus towards enemies when taking measures to escape danger. But God does not fear any one, so as to escape danger by leading into error those who conspire against him.” Now it is altogether unnecessary and absurd to answer a charge which is advanced by no one against our Saviour. And we have already replied, when answering other charges, to the statement that “no one who is either in a state of sickness or mental alienation is a friend of God.” For the answer is, that such arrangements have been made, not for the sake of those who, being already friends, afterwards fell sick or became afflicted with mental disease, but in order that those who were still enemies through sickness of the soul, and alienation of the natural reason, might become the friends of God. For it is distinctly stated that Jesus endured all things on behalf of sinners, that He might free them from sin, and convert them to righteousness.
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), Contra Celsus, Book IV
"Que sara sara"
["Doctor Faustus: Shakespeare's Globe"]
[ch. 16]
...For those below did not possess eyes capable of seeing the transformation of the Word into His glorious and more divine condition. But with difficulty were they able to receive Him as He was; so that it might be said of Him by those who were unable to behold His more excellent nature: “We saw Him, and He had no form nor comeliness; but His form was mean, and inferior to that of the sons of men.” And let these remarks be an answer to the suppositions of Celsus, who does not understand the changes or transformations of Jesus, as related in the histories, nor His mortal and immortal nature.
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), Contra Celsus, Book IV
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What an experience it was growing up long ago being able to hear songs like this! What could even compare, except the raw beauty of Nature herself?
Thanks Leslie Bricusse (and who also wrote such as "Goldfinger," etc., etc. of course.)
[""Where Are the Words?" from "Doctor Dolittle"" - as sung at the World Premiere London Production 1998]
