Showing posts with label RECENTLY READ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RECENTLY READ. Show all posts

Monday, October 4, 2010

Recently Read with sarah

from Roger Scruton, quoted in The Murder Room by P.D. James, page 263
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Recently Read by sarah

from Death In Holy Orders by P.D. James, page 164

Modern discipleship was not a matter of indulgence in archaic if beautiful language, in which words more often obscured than affirmed the reality of faith. There was a temptation to over-value intelligence and intellectual achievement so that theology became a philosophical exercise in justifying skepticism.