Today’s One-Liner (#109)
Keep an eye primarily on yourself and admonish yourself instead of your friends. –Thomas á Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Back to Bach
Listen to certain Preludes of Bach. They do not say much; there is a short motif repeated; then insistent variations in no higher relief than that of a medal by Roty. But what a level…
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 (#108)
Nothing is more difficult to overcome than the problems we thought were already overcome.–Alexis de Tocqueville, via my friend Suzanne Renard
Today’s One-Liner (#107)
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love, you didn’t need to coax. –Rod Stewart, “Maggie May”
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 (#104)
I will take pains to humble my arrogance. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, quoted in Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
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
A Poet’s Life
Yankev Glatshteyn worked in over fifty sweatshops. –Janet Hadda, Yankev Glatshteyn