29
Nov
A collection of quotes.
The great omission in American life is solitude… that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. -Marya Mannes “My knowledge of that life is small, The eye of faith is dim; But it’s enough that Christ knows all, And I shall Read more
29
Nov
Excerpt from Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite so certain how we should have behaved if we had been Read more
28
Nov
Winston Churchill Quotes
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. There is no such thing as a good tax. Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as Read more
27
Nov
Summary of Some of Life’s Philosophies In a Nutshell
Solipsism Nothing exists; Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can’t be communicated to others. – Gorgias (485-375 BC) Solipsism is the idea that one can only know that one’s self exists and that anything outside the mind, Read more
23
Nov
RegEx Date Mask
The other day I searched for a hour and a half tp find a simple regular expression the would validate a date field with a mask of either mm/dd/yyyy or m/d/yyyy to no avail. All I could find were expressions that either were a mile in length or for some-reason-or-another Read more
21
Nov
Quote by CS Lewis
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things the beauty, the memory of our own past are good Read more
20
Nov
Why am I a Christian?
Prelude: This thought omits a base believe that God actually exists; but it’s there. That’s a whole other thought process. In the period of preparation for loving God, the soul loves in emptiness. It does not know whether anything real answers its love. It may believe that it knows, but to Read more
13
Nov
Leave it ALL on the field.
When I was playing football I always thought I gave everything I had on every play, especially during my senior year. But now that I’m not playing anymore, I know that I didn’t; I just thought I did. Now that I have finished my playing, I’d give anything to play Read more
