Catholic Jack
As Kerouac aged, he reclaimed the Catholic identity he had inherited from his devout parents, although to the reader, the influence was often muffled under the Benzedrine and booze-fueled bacchanalia of his youth, especially when…
Month: October 2025
Today’s One-Liner (#287)
And of course, for your beginning studies of Buddhism, you must listen to me carefully and implicitly as tho I was Einstein teaching you relativity or Eliot teaching the Formulas of Objective Correlation on a…
Calcutta Is Everywhere
You will find Calcutta all over the world if you have eyes to see. The streets of Calcutta lead to every man’s door. I know you may want to make trip to Calcutta, but it…
Today’s One-Liner (#286)
To live by love is to go through life, sowing peace and joy in hearts. –Francis Broome, The Little Way for Every Day: Thoughts from Thérèse of Lisieux
Right Focus
You will never be devout of heart unless you are thus silent about the affairs of others and pay particular attention to yourself. If you attend wholly to God and yourself, you will be little…
Today’s One-Liner (#285)
Complain as little as possible about the wrongs you suffer. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. John K. Ryan
Today’s One-Liner (#284)
With this book, he came out of the intellectually unfashionable Christian closet. –Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard’s book, Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, in her Evolution of Desire: A Life of…
Choose
We must decide whether our top priority is to smite the wicked or to advance the less fortunate, whether we are looking for visions and rhetoric that make us feel good for the moment or…
Plenty of Time
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That’s absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people….
Today’s One-Liner (#283)
[As a student, Howard] Thurman did this by, among other things, reading quite literally every book on the shelves of Morehouse’s admittedly modest library, most of the religious texts donated by retired white ministers. –Sohrab…