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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