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December 11, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you were to get a tattoo, what would it be and where would you put it?

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November 27, 2009 by kevinstilley

John Ruskin – select quotes

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words; a lie may be told in silence, by equivocation, by the accent on a syllable, by a glance of the eye attaching a peculiar significance to a sentence; but all of these kinds of lies are worse and baser by many degrees than a lie plainly worded.
~ John Ruskin, in Modern Painters

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
~ in Sesame and Lilies

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

The Bible is the one book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable–nay, letter by letter… you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly “illiterate,” uneducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy– you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

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November 27, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you could be any age for the rest of your life, what age would you choose?  Why?

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November 13, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you were a great explorer, what would you explore?

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November 6, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you could make one character from any work of fiction come to life, what character would you select?

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October 30, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you could trade places with anyone for one week, who would you want to trade with and why?

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October 24, 2009 by kevinstilley

Beauty – select quotes

Beauty deserves to be on the agenda for any faith community wrestling with the big spiritual issues of our time.
~ Karen Lee-Thorp, in Why Beauty Matters

We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bath in it, to become part of it.
~ C.S. Lewis, in The Weight of Glory

Beauty calls us to attention. It slows us down. This, in itself is the beginning of contemplation. It is difficult to hurry through beauty. If you are in a hurry, you probably won’t stop to be present to “the beautiful.” Beauty has the ability to heal life’s wounds. It can make us receptive to grace.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr

A walk on a summer morning; the glistening of the dew; the songs of the birds; the racing of the hare across the field; the lowing of the herd; the soaring of the lark; the cooing of the dove; the humming of the bee; the warbling of the bob-o-link; the verdure of the hills; the fragrance of the flowers; the laughter of sweet childhood; the chatter of the aged; the distant whistle of the youth as he goes out to harvest is a sweet blending of God’s universal love. Truly, he is a fool who says in his heart “There is no God.”
~ C.M. Joiner

A dewdrop is as beautiful as a diamond but there is not much of a market for them.
~ Unknown

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October 23, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you could teach any class on any subject, what would you teach and to whom would you teach it?

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October 18, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you had to do your life over, what one thing would you do differently? Explain.

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October 16, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

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If you could be any cartoon character, which one would you be?

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