by Mike Duran · 2 comments
As part of my writing resources, I’ve slowly been compiling magazine subscriptions. Currently, I’m receiving Christian History, Writer’s Digest and Paste. But, at this writing, my favorite is Christianity Today’s, Books and Culture.
Books, films, music, history, politics, science, interviews, and pop culture analyzed from a discerning Christian perspective. Sometimes academic, often theological, always thought-provoking. If only they’d go monthly. . .
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. -- Franz Kafka
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman. -- Homer Simpson
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. -- Baudelaire
The doubts of some are more indicative of a love for truth than the belief of others. -- John Ker
When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name. -- Charles Spurgeon
Too much abuse has gone on for too long. -- Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? -- St. Francis de Sales
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. -- Buddha
Life is all your moments in a row. -- The Elms, Burn and Shine
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. -- Samuel Johnson
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. -- Woody Allen
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. -- G.K. Chesterton
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder. -- The Beatles
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. -- Thomas Merton
I'd rather be ruled by a competent turk than an incompetent Christian. -- Martin Luther
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. -- Will Rogers
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle
Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. -- Jesus
In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere. -- Charles Fort
The role of the artist is to not look away. -- Akira Kurosawa
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest. -- Aristotle
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. -- French Proverb
Something always takes the place of missing pieces. -- Beck, Guero
What you look at hard seems to look at you. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. -- Herman Melville
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. -- Thomas A. Edison
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. -- Flannery O'Connor
True friends stab you in the front. -- Oscar Wilde
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat." -- C.S. Lewis
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. -- Jacques Barzun
Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. -- Stephen King
All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might. -- James Martineau
It is much better to know something about everything, than everything about something. -- Pascal
How will we open the eyes of the dead, when we are hollow? -- Project 86, Truthless Heroes
There are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render. -- Degas
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. -- Charles Dickens
I have no fear of drowning, It's the breathing that's taking all this work. -- Jars of Clay, Good Monsters
The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language. -- Frederick Buechner
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church. -- Martin Luther
When I am king you will be first against the wall. -- Radiohead, OK Computer
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. -- G.K. Chesterton
Trust the evolutionary process. It's all going to work out all right. -- Timothy Leary
We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again. -- T-Bone Burnett, The Criminal Under My Own Hat
Action to relieve suffering is the abortion of karma. -- Os Guiness
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. -- Henry Kissinger
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I get more writing ideas from “Popular Mechanics” and “Scientific American” than almost any other magazines. B&C is a good choice, although it’s a bit highbrow for most people. “Ellery Queen” is also a fun read, although my subscription is long expired.
Highbrow? Maybe. But I don’t mind a magazine without pictures.