The Editor's Favorite
Notes and "Quotes"

"Everybody talks about the weather
but nobody does anything about it."
Mark Twain
August 24th, 1897

"The effects of a hurricane would be much easier to live with,
were we not so intent upon convincing ourselves
that some human culprit caused it."
Wilfred M. McClay
"Mastery's Anger" in Touchstone, November 2005

"Where there is truth,
there is always strength and security."
Emily Stimpson
"Storied Houses" in Touchstone, November 2005

"The truth is that many funeral sermons
confidently asserting
that the deceased is now in heaven
and enjoying eternal bliss
are exercises in presumption
that are without warrant in biblical testimony
or theological tradition."
Richard John Neuhaus
"The Public Square" in First Things, January 2005

"Just don't take it for granted,
because tomorrow is not promised to any of us."
Kirby Puckett
March 14, 1960, to March 6th, 2006

"He endured the cross
precisely because He crossed people."
Patrick Henry Reardon
"Dogmatic Love" in Touchstone, October 2005

"How many movies and television shows
are educating us for love?
And how many for self-gratification?"
Mitch Pacwa, S.J.
EWTN, March 8th, 2005

"I get plenty of exercise
because I keep dropping things."
Germaine Jesberg
On March 2nd, 2006

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