Trechos para traduo: 1. Montanism was, first of all, a highly rigorist movement.

In morals, as in everything, there are two opposite tendencies. The first is to say: Everything matters infinitely. The second is to say: No doubt that is true. But mere sanity demands that we should not treat everything as mattering all that. Distinction is necessary; more-and-less is necessary; indifference is necessary. The contention is always sharp. The Rigorous view is vital to sanctity; the Relaxed view is vital to sanity. Their union is not impossible, but it is difficult; for whichever is in power begins, after the first five minutes, to maintain itself from bad and unworthy motives. Harshness, pride, resentment encourage the one; indulgence, falsity, detestable good-fellowship the other. (Charles Williams, The descent of the dove. Regent College Publishing, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2002, p. 31) 2. The end of the Middle Ages can be variously regarded as a break-down, a break-up or a break-through. The last is the least probable; The Middle Ages were not so precluded from intelligence that the discovery of a number of new facts or even of other methods of enjoyment need have much destroyed their balance (Charles Williams, The descent of the Dove, p. 128) 3. Jews and Christians have preserved their sacred memories of the Exodus and Passion in the Old and New Testaments. The sacred record of the History of the Jews in this context, a specific reference to the Old Testament people of God is also part of the Christian story, as the Hebrew Bible is the Christian Bibles Old Testament. Thus the Exodus is not only part of the Jewish story, but also part of the Christian story differently so from the Passion, but nonetheless essentially so. (Miroslav Volf, The End of Memory, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2006. (p. 96). 4. The manager had returned his nickel, even though the Penny Arcade people had been base enough to suggest that Ignatius had himself broken the baseball machine by kicking it. (adaptado de A Confederacy of Dunces, de John Kennedy Toole, cap. 1). 5. It was one of those pictures so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. 6. How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing (and perhaps, like you, I have met it only once) it is irresistible. If even 10% of the worlds population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a years end? (C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady.) 7. Dear Mrs._______ I am sorry things are not better. I am very puzzled by people like your Committee Secretary, people who are just nasty. []Probably you, who cant hit back, come in for a good deal of resentful arrogance aroused by others on whom she doesnt vent it, because they can. (C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady.)

8. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. (Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg address- 19 nov 1863) 9. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. (Martin Luther Kings Address- Delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.) 10. He [the writer] must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid...(William Faulkner, Speech accepting the Nobel prize in literature) 11. As if he said In my inexorable love I shall lay upon the dust that you are glories and dangers and responsibilities beyond your understanding. Do you see what I mean? One has missed the whole point unless one feels that we have all been crowned and that coronation is somehow, if splendid, a tragic splendour(C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady) 12. If, however, as I have argued above, we can only trace back the validity of laws to other laws (as distinct from the relationship of validating purpose), if we already know by the test of recognition to what system the laws belong, it cannot be traceability back to the basic norm that tells us to what system laws belong or accounts for their unity in a single system. (H.L.A. Hart, Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy, p.399.) 13. It is the contention of these pages that while the best judge of Christianity is a Christian, the next best judge would be something more like a Confucian. The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgments; the ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard. ... (G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man.) 14. It is unlikely that anyone can fully comprehend or understand the environment and beyond identifying broad and usually ill-defined forces or currents there can be little in the way of a common environmental diagnosis. (The Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management. 2