Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth? The Illiad, bk 4
10 «Hva skal vi da gjøre?» spurte folk. 11 Han svarte: «Den som har to kjortler, skal dele med den som ikke har noen, og den som har mat, skal gjøre det samme.» 12 Det kom også noen tollere for å bli døpt, og de sa til ham: «Mester, hva skal vi gjøre?» 13 «Krev […]
As a drowning man grasps at a straw, all that is within us reaches out for the certainty which the conscience gives. If only we might stand in the shining presence of the other will, not doubtfully but with assurance! If only, instead of merely guessing at it as men who can only hope and […]
But many times the fearful apprehension seizes us that unrighteousness may triumph in the end. The frightful fancy comes, that the unrighteous will which now persecutes and tortures us may be the only, the profoundest will in life. And the impossible resolve suggests itself – make peace with it! Surrender yourself to the thought that […]
For we suffer from unrighteousness. We dread it. All that is within us revolts against it. We know more about it, it is true, that we do about righteousness. We have constantly before us, in the great and small occurrences of life, in our own conduct and in that of others, another kind of will, […]
Conscience comes with its message, now as a bitter, pressing accusation, now as a quiet, firm assertion, now as an imperious task set for the will, now as an obstruction opposing against you an inexorable «No!», now as a curse and condemnation which crushes you to earth, now as a holy joy which lifts you […]
Since conscience is the perfect interpreter of life, what is tells us is no question, no riddle, no problem, but a fact – the deepest, innermost, surest fact of life: God is righteous. Our only question is what attitude toward the fact we ought to take. We shall hardly approach the fact with our critical […]
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring wither their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. Edmund Burke Reflections […]
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring wither their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. Edmund Burke Reflections […]
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Widerstand und Ergebung (1951) Ein paar Gedanken über Vierschiedenes.
