"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

25 December 2010

Gifts.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Let's think of the steeple and the gargoyle. The steeple is this beautiful thing reaching up into the sky admitting, as it were, its own inadequacy—attempting something utterly impossible-to climb up to heaven through a steeple. The gargoyle is this little man grinning and laughing at the absurd behavior of men on earth, and these two things both built into this building to the glory of God. He's laughing at the inadequacy of man the pretensions of man, the absolute preposterous gap-disparity-between his aspirations and his performance, which is the eternal comedy of human life. It will be so till the end of time you see. 

Malcolm Muggeridge

1 comment:

Kurt Harden said...

Did you find the Buckley-Muggeridge video? If so, I need to burn a copy.

KJH