Josh Bishop Reads

Here you’ll find a hodgepodge of other people’s writing, presented without comment or explanation and tied together only by my own amusement.

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May 22nd, 2013
I must confess that I think it a most right and excellent thing that you and I should rejoice in the natural creation of God. I do not think that any man is altogether beyond hope who can take delight in the nightly heavens as he watches the stars, and feel joy as he treads the meadows all bedecked with kingcups and daisies. He is not lost to better things who, on the waves, rejoices in the creeping things innumerable drawn up from the vasty deep, or who, in the woods, is charmed with the sweet carols of the feathered minstrels.
C.H. Spurgeon in “A Sermon (No. 2211) Intended for Reading on Lord’s-day, July 5th, 1891”
May 21st, 2013
Food is precisely an epiphany of the greatness of our nature—or, to use the most accurate theological word of all, it is a sacrament, a real presence of the gorgeous mystery of our being.
Robert Farrar Capon in The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
May 20th, 2013
Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and a tongue to taste it.
Robert Farrar Capon in The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
May 19th, 2013
There is a habit that plagues many so-called spiritual minds: they imagine that matter and spirit are somehow at odds with each other and that the right course for human life is to escape from the world of matter into some finer and purer (and undoubtedly duller) realm. To me, that is a crashing mistake. Because, in fact, it was God who invented dirt, onions and turnip greens; God who invented human beings, with their strange compulsion to cook their food; God who, at the end of each day of creation, pronounced a resounding ‘Good!’ over his own concoctions. And it is God’s unrelenting love of all the stuff of this world that keeps it in being at every moment.
Robert Farrar Capon in The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
May 18th, 2013
‘How do you know all this?’ he cried. ‘Are you a devil?’ ¶ ‘I am a man,’ answered Father Brown gravely; ‘and therefore have all devils in my heart.’
G.K. Chesterton in “The Hammer of God”
May 17th, 2013
Why do these idiots always assume the only person who hates the wife’s lover is the wife’s husband? Nine times out of ten the person who most hates the wife’s lover is the wife.
G.K. Chesterton in “The Hammer of God”
May 16th, 2013
He pointed to the colonel and said: ‘When did this dog die in his sins?’ ¶ ‘Moderate your language,’ said the doctor ¶ ‘Moderate the Bible’s language, and I’ll moderate mine. When did he die?’
G.K. Chesterton in “The Hammer of God”
May 15th, 2013
Few except the poor preserve traditions. Aristocrats live not in traditions but in fashions.
G.K. Chesterton in “The Hammer of God”
May 14th, 2013
Our libertarians, so infatuated with choice, are really infatuated with what facilitates or empowers that choice—that is, with government.
Joseph Knippenberg, qtd. by Jake Meador in “The tyranny of the choice enhancement state”
May 13th, 2013
Jesus once compared two men who built two houses, one on sand and the other on the rock. He then compared what happened to the two houses when the storm hit them. Left out of His parable was the option of initially building a house on rock, but then going off to college and taking one philosophy course too many, and coming home again in order to have the house moved to a sandier location, but one with a better view of man’s endless potential and innate goodness.
Douglas Wilson in “Secularists With Bible Tinsel”