But I’ve been holding on tight. I admit it. I’m a big believer in the C.S. Lewis quote, “We’re not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” And I think for a while now I’ve been expecting the pain so my life is one elongated cringe before the crash. I know I have to un-cringe. I need to stretch out. Accept what I can’t control.
From Matt at CMR
“Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.”
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“Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter 4, “The Ethics of Elfland.”
