Selected Aphorisms #52
Posted: April 4, 2009 Filed under: Aphorisms | Tags: aphorism, crazy pregnancies, Jesuits 1 Comment »The fifty-second installment in our top-of-the-line new series.
Sometimes you just gotta read all up on a book. Like today, I just looked at my copy of Finding God in All Things by uber-Jesuit William Barry, and I was like, “I’m a read all up on you, book.” It’s without a hint of shame or anxiety that I describe the silence which followed as “crazy pregnant.”
Selected Aphorisms #51
Posted: April 3, 2009 Filed under: Aphorisms | Tags: aphorism, piece (up in this), spiritual athletes Leave a comment »The fifty-first installment in our jerry-rigged new series.
If someone has a mind for science, it’s not unusual to refer to him as “an Einstein” or as “a regular Einstein.” Where you don’t see that as often is when someone demonstrates real proficiency in matters of spiritual fitness. For example, “Hey, we got a real Epictetus on our hands” is not a particularly common refrain. Same goes for: “I don’t have my glasses on, but I’d be damned if that weren’t St. Ignatius of Loyola up in this piece.”
Selected Aphorisms #50
Posted: April 1, 2009 Filed under: Aphorisms | Tags: aphorism, Korean autos, spiritual consolation (distributors of) Leave a comment »The fiftieth installment in our self-congratulatory new series.
“Give a man a 1996 Kia Sephia with a garrulous serpentine belt and failing transmission, and he’ll probably regard it as a mixed blessing. Teach a man to fix that Kia Sephia, and he’ll find work even in this tough economy.” It’s sayings like this – bursting with intuitive light, rolling right off the tongue – that have made The New Enthusiast your #1 source for spiritual consolation since slightly earlier than right now in 2009.
McSweeney
Carson Cistulli
Woytek
daynperry
Najib
Sean Casey
Dan Lurie
