Quotes about Events

Christianity has remained a religion in which the pure Perennial Philosophy has been overlaid, now more, now less, by an idolatrous preoccupation with events and things in time—events and things regarded not merely as useful means, but as ends, intrinsically sacred and indeed divine.

W]hen Christianity is mainly preoccupied with events in time, it is a 'revolutionary religion,' and [...] when, under mystical influences, it stresses the Eternal Gospel, of which the historical or pseudo-historical facts recorded in Scripture are but symbols, it becomes politically 'static' and 'reactionary.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people.

Austen knew that our biggest hopes sometimes rest on the smallest events, and that tragedy can be played out not just on a national stage or a foreign battlefield but also in a drawing-room conversation or on a country walk.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

What we see happening as we move further into the twenty-first century is a sovereign God moving through global events to open doors once closed to the gospel.

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

Muad'Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, about the behaviour which surrounds such insight and its influence upon events whcih are seen to be on line. (That is, events which are set to occur in a related system which the prophet reveals and interprets.) As has been noted elsewhere, such insight operates as a peculiar trap for the prophet himself. He can become the victim of what he knows — which is a relatively common human failing.

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters. Are you ready to go?