The Editor's Favorite
Notes and "Quotes"

"It can change your life forever.
It's like nothing on earth.  When you visit,
Alaska becomes part of your soul forever."
Alaska
Official State Vacation Planner 2003

"Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert
with violence
that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards,
to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm,
a divine company and a divine captain."
G.K. Chesterton
in Orthodoxy, 1908, 1995

"Of all horrible religions,
the most horrible is the worship of the god within."
G.K. Chesterton
in Orthodoxy, 1908, 1995

"A man was meant to be doubtful about himself,
but undoubting about the truth."
G.K. Chesterton
in Orthodoxy, 1908, 1995

"Mary could not have passed Jesus the y-chromosome
necessary for maleness. 
We must infer, then, that his maleness was given by his Father
along with his divinity
and not as part of his human genetic makeup.
Jesus' maleness is not an attribute of his humanity
but of his divinity."
June McIntosh, Pennsylvania
in First Things, August/September 2003

"We should not, in order to make people feel good,
rewrite American history.
The founders of the American experiment
thought this was quite simply and obviously a Christian society."
Richard John Neuhaus
The Public Square in First Things, August/September 2003

"We kept faith with a promise as old as this land we love
and as big as the sky,
a brilliant vision of America as a shining city on a hill.
Thanks to all of you, and with God's help,
America's greatest chapter is still to be written;
the best is yet to come."
President Ronald Reagan
At a Tribute Dinner in 1988

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