Keeping It Simple
Shortly after publishing his novel Helena, in which he retold the story of the emperor Constantine’s mother and her quest for the true cross, Evelyn Waugh received a congratulatory note from a friend, the poet…
Month: May 2025
Today’s One-Liner (#156)
Someone who knows Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Augustine, or Aquinas will never be too far from the truth, never out-of-date. –James V. Schall, S.J., A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning
Writing Daily
Often quoting Stendhal to the effect that one should “write every day, whether inspired or not,” Alain encouraged his students to sit down at a desk and write prolifically, as he did, at least two…
Today’s One-Liner (#155)
When our relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis wold have done. —Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness, 166
Helen …
Is one of the best students I’ve had in 28 years. In the classroom, serene, kind and wise. On the field, like a force of nature.
Words Matter: A Summer Writing and Speaking Class
We all can render a great service by listening to opposing opinions without agitation, discourtesy, or violence, and by offering our opinions not as nonnegotiable demands but as calm, courteous statements. —Sri Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad…
Today’s One-Liner (#154)
Wherever the corpse is, that is where the vultures will gather. –Matthew 24: 28, New Jerusalem translation For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. –Matthew 24:28, King James translation
A Simple Alternative to Perfectionism
My dear Mother, you can see that I am a very little soul and that I can offer God only very little things. It often happens that I allow these little sacrifices which give such…
Today’s One-Liner (#153)
I would like to suffer and die in a knightly manner, even to the shedding of the last drop of my blood, to hasten the day of gaining the whole world for the Immaculate Mother…
Don’t Take Everybody to Be Your Friend
We see the same salmon-cream-lilac obtuseness when Lefties try to talk religion. They live and move and have their being in a secular elite culture that has nothing but disdain for Christianity and Christians; at…