In this episode, the dogs discuss what it means to live with integrity (0:44). Rob opens by bringing up Bobby Jones’ loss in the 1925 U.S. Open (1:00), Mike gets a little heretical (10:10), and Connor experiences some technical difficulties (15:15). They close by reflecting on representations of integrity in various films (28:22).
Quotes:
“It’s just you have no integrity. That’s the worst thing I could say about anybody.” (from Calvary, 3:55)
“Integrity is a result of a life lived in truth.” (Connor, 5:05)
“Beauty is the manifestation of truth.” (from Denis McNamara 3DN S11 E12, 5:16)
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Matthew 23:19, 9:10)
“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.” (from The Sandlot, 12:10)
“Real integrity, you can tell has been cultivated over a lifetime.” (Connor, 16:30)
“A good friend is not a conspirator in our vices.” (Mike quoting a friend, 20:50)
“You’re going to get the work done of one person because you’re one person.” (Connor, 25:45)
“God does manifest his glory through human creativity, but it’s not through the grind.” (Connor, 27:10)
“What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?” (Matthew 16:26, 31:30)
“When a man takes an oath, he’s holding his own self in his own hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn’t hope to find himself again.” (from A Man for All Seasons, 34:06)
“If you aim at the truth, at Jesus….. you become yourself.” (Connor 36:00)
Media Mentions:
- Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica
- Calvary (2014)
- Bobby Jones: Sroke of Genius (2004)
- The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
- The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Miracle (2004)
- Remember the Titans (2000)
- Three Dogs North S11 E60- Formed by the Father (meekness)
- The Death of Stalin (2017)
- Arrested Development (2003- 2006)
- A Man for All Seasons (1966)
- A Hidden Life (2019)
- Shūsaku Endō’s Silence
- Silence (2016)
- Star Wars
References:
- Bobby Jones
- 1925 U.S. Open
- Thomas Aquinas: consonantia, claritas, and integritas
- Brendan Gleeson
- Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)
- John the Baptist
- Cardinal Francis George
- Will Smith
- Matt Damon
- Shia LaBeouf
- James Earl Jones
- Babe Ruth
- Aslan
- Fr. Larry Hennessy
- Shakespeare
- “A mortal, sinful human being.”
- Michelangelo
- Sistine Chapel
- Bishop Robert Barron
- Steve Buscemi
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Sir Thomas More
- Bishop Mark Bartosic
- Liam Neeson
- Andrew Garfield
- Adam Driver
- Darth Vader
- Kylo Ren
- Franz Jägerstätter
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