Once indiscriminate violence becomes welcome, is there any limit to that harm? Chekhov suggests: perhaps the greatest brutality comes from humane, well-educated idealists. –Gary Saul Morson, Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions And Why Their…
In mental prayer, shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. –Saint John Vianney, quoted in Mother Teresa, Everything Starts from Prayer: Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths, selected and…
Mother Teresa of Calcutta did not become an international icon of selfless generosity despite her belief in Jesus Christ, the only Son of God and the unique savior of the world; she lifted the wretched…