A Note from Natalie Long

I’m reading “The Sayings of the Desert Fathers”. This excerpt, recounted in the section on Abba Poemen, reminded me of Father Zossima. 34. Another brother questioned him in these words: What does, “See that none…

Today’s One-Liner (#106)

 Instead of reading myths in the light of the Gospels, people have always read the Gospels in light of myths.  –Rene Girard, Maxim #104, in All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, edited…

Today’s One-Liner (#105)

Be not too hasty to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality:  they discourse like angels, but they live like men. –Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia

Today’s One-Liner (#103)

I accept the torment of accusation and of my disgrace before all, I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!  –Dmitri Karamazov, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Today’s One-Liner (#102)

But if we understand that it was truly under the inspiration of his divine Master that St. Francis did these merely quaint or eccentric acts of charity, we must understand that it was under the…