/* This JavaScript (Random Quotes) developed by Scott Clark
The Source is available at http://www.clarksco.com/blog/
Copyright 2005 Clark Consulting */
var num_of_quotes = 11;
quotes = Math.floor (num_of_quotes * Math.random());
if (quotes==0) {
body='"This is the thrilling romance of orthodoxy. People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy."
-- G. K. Chesterton
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}
if (quotes==1) {
body='"Some desire to know merely for the sake of knowing, and that is shameful curiosity. Some desire to know that they may sell their knowledge, and that too is shameful. Some desire to know for reputation’s sake, and that is shameful vanity. But there are some who desire to know that they may edify others, and that is praiseworthy; and there are some who desire to know that they themselves may be edified, and that is wise."
-- Bernard of Clairveux
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}
if (quotes==2) {
body='"God\'s gift to his sorrowing creatures is to give them Joy worthy of their destiny."
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
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}
if (quotes==3) {
body='"Reduced speech leads to reduced lives. Sunday morning is the practice of a counter life through a counter speech. The church, on Sunday morning, or whenever it engages in its odd speech, may be the last place left in our society for imaginative speech that permits people to enter into new worlds of faith and to participate in joyous, obedient life."
-- Walter Brueggeman, Finally Comes the Poet
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}
if (quotes==4) {
body='"A little wonder is worth tons of knowledge in truly knowing what the universe is about."
-- George MacDonald, The Poet\'s Homecoming
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}
if (quotes==5) {
body='"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake some day and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return."
-- Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk
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}
if (quotes==6) {
body='"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead."
-- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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}
if (quotes==7) {
body='"It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization -- it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt."
-- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
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}
if (quotes==8) {
body='"It is an uneasy lot at best to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small, hungry, shivering self - never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted."
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch
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}
if (quotes==9) {
body='"It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men."
-- C.S. Lewis, "A Word About Praising," Reflections on the Psalms
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}
if (quotes==10) {
body='"Let us not be too sure we know the Bible just because we have learned not to be astonished at it, just because we have learned not to have problems with it."
-- Thomas Merton
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}
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