Thought

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not. 

-Albert Einstein-

7 for 7

HE DID IT!  

7 Olympic gold medals!  

Of course he did it in pure style, winning by the smallest margin possible!  Absolutely stunning!

Never Say It's Over...

The greatest relay of all time!  Jason Lezak is my new hero! :)

What Must Happen...

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.  In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.  When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.  It is for this reason, and not because of the 'weakness of indoctrinational work,' that they are growing up 'indifferent.'  Young people are acquiring the conviction that foul deeds are never punished on earth, that they always bring prosperity.  It is going to be uncomfortable, horrible, to live in such a country.  

-The Gulag Archipelago-

Alexander Solzenhitsyn

A Man of Many Words

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

11 December 1918 - 3 August 2008

-Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people.  Let your memory be your travel bag.

-Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

-It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.  

-It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.  

Bless the Lord!

Bless the Lord, Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth!  In Him are all things, visible and invisible, in Him are all things brought to pass.  In Him is all power and majesty, in Him is all mercy and grace.  He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, His Kingdom shall have no end.  In Him we find our hope, in Him we find our joy.  In Him we find our beginning, in Him we find our purpose.  Bless the Lord, O my soul, bless His holy name, now and ever and unto ages of ages, amen!

Of Priests & Poets

I do not question that we need priests to remind us that we shall one day die, but I insist that we also need another type of priest, the poet, to remind us that we are not yet dead.

-G.K. Chesterton