Charles Twombly:
CLASS OF 1960
Garden Grove High SchoolClass of 1960
Garden grove, CA
O.A. Peters Elementary SchoolClass of 1956
Garden grove, CA
O A. Peters Junior High SchoolClass of 1956
Garden grove, CA
Charles's Story
Charles is from Compton, California. Charles's schools include Garden Grove High School. Charles later attended Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA (Literature AB) . Charles works(ed) at Wesleyan College, Washington County High School (ga), Erskine Theological Seminary (adjunct).
Music Charles likes includes Melissa Horn, Sofia Karlsson, Pete Seeger. Books Charles likes include Center Church, The Lord of the Rings, Anna Karenina. Movies Charles likes include Chariots of Fire, The Hours, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. TV shows Charles likes include History, As Time Goes By, Wallender.
One of Charles's favorite quotes is:"I'm a Marxist--Groucho, not Karl. (Harold Bloom)
"Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction--they see their objects always near, never in the horizon." â William Hazlitt (quoted by CS Lewis)
"We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way." (St. Francis of Assisi)
"A great many people think that they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." (William James)
"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." (Mother Teresa)
âResolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now, you are at the Olympic games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is ...wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event.â
--Epictetus
"The reassertion of what is old with a luminousness of explanation which is new, is a gift inferior only to that of revelation itself."
Cardinal Newman
"..a few centuries earlier...the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and if it was proved they really believed it. They still connected thinking with doing and were prepared to alter their lives as the result of a chain of reasoning. But with the weekly press and other such weapons we have largely altered that. Your man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to have a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about in his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily 'true' or 'false', but as 'academic' or 'practical', 'outworn' or 'contemporary'... Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church."
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
"Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men." - G. K. Chesterton
"He is bruised and wounded, but he heals every disease and every infirmity. He is lifted up and nailed to the tree, but by the tree of life he restores us. He dies, but he gives life, and by his death he destroys death." --Gregory of Nazianzus
"Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime." - Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
Blaise Pascal
"Rule, Britannia. Britannia rules the waves....."
"Land of Hope and Glory....."
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
...This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)
JERUSALEM (from 'Milton')
by: William Blake (1757-1827)
AND did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
There'll always be an England. CCT
GK Chesterton: "Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them. [...] The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand."
"Beauty will save the world!"
--Prince Myshkin
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
"Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."--Carrie Fisher
"Whenever a theologian begins to think that the Greek categories are outmoded, this simply means that he has stepped outside the rhythm of communion." Georges Florovsky
Our Lady of Czestochowa
Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold
And very Regent of the untroubled sky,
Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold
...And hear...Expand for more
d a woodland music passing by:
You shall receive me when the clouds are high
With evening and the sheep attain the fold.
This is the faith that I have held and hold,
And this is that in which I mean to die.
Steep are the seas and savaging and cold
In broken waters terrible to try;
And vast against the winter night the wold,
And harbourless for any sail to lie.
But you shall lead me to the lights, and I
Shall hymn you in a harbour story told.
This is the faith that I have held and hold,
And this is that in which I mean to die.
Help of the half-defeated, House of gold,
Shrine of the Sword, and Tower of Ivory;
Splendour apart, supreme and aureoled,
The Battler's vision and the World's reply.
You shall restore me, O my last Ally,
To vengence and the glories of the bold.
This is the faith that I have held and hold,
And this is that in which I mean to die.
Envoi
Prince of the degradations, bought and sold,
These verses, written in your crumbling sty,
Proclaim the faith that I have held and hold
And publish that in which I mean to die.
Hillaire Belloc
"But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account the...reof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." Mathew 12:36-27
What if every word we say
Never ends or fades away,
Gathers volume gathers weigh,
Drums and dins us with dismay
Surges on some dreadful day
When we cannot get away
Whelms us till we drown?
What if not a word is lost,
What if every word we cast
Cruel, cunning, cold, accurst,
Every word we cut and paste
Echoes to us from the past
Fares and finds us first and last
Haunts and hunts us down?
What if every murmuration,
Every otiose oration
Every oath and imprecation,
Insidious insinuation,
Every bloggerâs aberration,
Every facebook fabrication
Every twittered titivation,
Unexamined asservation
Idiotic iteration,
Every facile explanation,
Drags us to the ground?
What if each polite evasion
Every word of defamation,
Insults made by implication,
Querulous prevarication,
Compromise in convocation,
Propaganda for the nation
False or flattering peruasion,
Blackmail and manipulation
Simulated desparation
Grows to such reverberation
That it shakes our own foundation,
Shakes and brings us down?
Better that some words be lost,
Better that they should not last,
Tongues of fire and violence.
O Word through whom the world is blessed,
Word in whom all words are graced,
Do not bring us to the test,
Give our clamant voices rest,
And the rest is silence.
Malcolm Guite
âI Want to Walk as a Child of the Lightâ
I want to walk as a child of the Light
I want to follow Jesus
God set the stars To give light to the world
The Star of my life is Jesus.
Chorus:
In Him there is no darkness at all
The night and the day are both alike
The lamb is the Light of the city of God
Shine in my heart Lord Jesus.
I want to see the Brightness of God
I want to look at Jesus
Clear Son of righteousness shine on my path
And show me the way to the Father.
Chorus
Iâm looking for the coming of Christ
I want to be with Jesus
When we have run, with patience, the race
We shall know the joy of Jesus.
âKathleen Thomerson
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling. (David Brooks)
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
~ Frederick Buechner
âPeople are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.â
~Mother Teresa
"What inclines even me to believe in Christâs Resurrection? It is as though I play with the thought. â If he did not rise from the dead, then he decomposed in the grave like any other man. He is dead and decomposed. In that case he is a teacher like any other and can no longer help; and once more we are orphaned and alone. So we have to content ourselves with wisdom and speculation. We are in a sort of hell where we can do nothing but dream, roofed in, as it were, and cut off from heaven. But if I am to be REALLY saved, â what I need is certainty â not wisdom, dreams or speculation â and this certainty is faith. And faith is faith in what is needed by my heart, my soul, not my speculative intelligence. For it is my soul with its passions, as it were with its flesh and blood, that has to be saved, not my abstract mind. Perhaps we can say: Only love can believe in the Resurrection. Or: It is love that believes the Resurrection. We might say: Redeeming love believes even in the Resurrection; holds fast even to the Resurrection. What combats doubt is, as it were, redemption. Holding fast to this must be holding fast to that belief. So what that means is: first you must be redeemed and hold on to your redemption (keep hold of your redemption) â then you will see that you are holding fast to this belief. So this can come about only if you no longer rest your weight on the earth but suspend yourself from heaven. Then everything will be different and it will be âno wonderâ if you can do things that you cannot do now. (A man suspended looks the same as one who is standing, but the interplay of forces within him is nevertheless quite different, so that he can act quite differently that can a standing man.)"
Ludwig Wittgenstein".
More about Charles:"Recently retired philosophy/ religion prof. One-time AP English teacher. Soon-to-be author of two or three books. ("Soon to be" is turning out to be a bit optimistic.)
Married since 1970 to Sheila Hunt Twombly".
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