#shock

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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.


Stanley Crouch


#become #gotten #kind #less #might

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.


Johnny Damon


#did #down #pulled #right #right time

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she?


Roald Dahl


#intelligent #matilda #roald-dahl #shocking #inspirational

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.


Peter Kreeft


#christianity #culture #culture-critique #heroes #jesus-shock

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.


Peter Kreeft


#christianity #god #jesus-shock #protestantism #sacraments

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.


Peter Kreeft


#christianity #crazy #god #jesus-shock #philosophy

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.


Peter Kreeft


#catholicism #christianity #deism #deist #god

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.


Peter Kreeft


#christianity #god #jesus-shock #ontological-oxymoron #ontology

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.


W. H. Auden


#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.


James A. Baldwin


#born #changed #changes #eager #go