Signposts » choice http://signposts.cowpi.com Words pointing… Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:22:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 No man chooses evil… http://signposts.cowpi.com/down/no-man-chooses-evil http://signposts.cowpi.com/down/no-man-chooses-evil#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:24:15 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/down/no-man-chooses-evil No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

— Mary Wollstonecraft  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/down/no-man-chooses-evil/feed 0 What we choose to fight… http://signposts.cowpi.com/down/what-we-choose-to-fight http://signposts.cowpi.com/down/what-we-choose-to-fight#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 16:25:08 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=866 What we choose to fight is so tiny…
When we win it’s with small things,
and the triumph itself makes us small.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from the poem “The Watching Man”  <link>

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Is “image and likeness” a redundant phrase, or does it mark a distinction? Arguably the latter. To be created in God’s image is to be granted the potentiality for sharing in the divine life, a potentiality that may or may not be actualized and is shared in equally by all human beings without their consent. Likeness, however, results from man’s free actualization of that potentiality. Whereas the image of God is imposed on man, likeness to God is not, but requires the free cooperation of the creature.

— Bill Vallicella (via)  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/image-and-likeness/feed 0 The door… http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/the-door http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/the-door#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:32:50 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=796 The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.

— Adrienne Rich  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/the-door/feed 0 Hell begins with a grumbling mood… http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/hell-begins-with-a-grumbling-mood http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/hell-begins-with-a-grumbling-mood#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 05:38:16 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=683 Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others…but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God ‘sending us’ to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

— C.S. Lewis (via)  <link>

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The ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls reached the entrance to heaven, the gods asked them two questions. Their answers determined whether they were admitted or not.
     Have you found joy in your life?
     Has your life brought joy to others?

— Carter Chambers, from the movie The Bucket List  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/two-questions/feed 0 Important Kind of Freedom http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/important-kind-of-freedom http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/important-kind-of-freedom#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:00:53 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=602 Important Kind of Freedom

And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

— David Foster Wallace (via)  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/important-kind-of-freedom/feed 0 You get to decide… http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/you-get-to-decide http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/you-get-to-decide#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:50:26 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=595 …the only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

— David Foster Wallace (via)  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/you-get-to-decide/feed 0 If you believe what you like in the gospels… http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/if-you-believe-what-you-like-in-the-gospels http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/if-you-believe-what-you-like-in-the-gospels#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:03:15 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=542 If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

— St. Augustine, Contra Faustum 17,3 (via)  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/up/if-you-believe-what-you-like-in-the-gospels/feed 0 It is a queer and fantastic world… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/it-is-a-queer-and-fantastic-world http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/it-is-a-queer-and-fantastic-world#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:08:16 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=493 It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can’t people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.

— Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/it-is-a-queer-and-fantastic-world/feed 0 Sin made Hell… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/sin-made-hell http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/sin-made-hell#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:18:00 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=486 Sin made Hell, divine love made Purgatory.

— Peter Kreeft  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/sin-made-hell/feed 0 Did you feel you were tricked… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/did-you-feel-you-were-tricked http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/did-you-feel-you-were-tricked#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:56:40 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=484 Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?

— Peter Gabriel, from “Down to Earth”  <link>

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