Today’s One-Liner (#260)
Ah! how many lights have I not drawn from the works of our holy Father, St. John of the Cross! –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul: Autobiography
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Dear Mother, when meditating upon these words of Jesus, I understood how imperfect was my love for my Sisters. I saw I didn’t love them as God loves them. Ah! I understand now that charity…
What Is to Be Done?
“We might begin with personal sanctity.” Rene Girard, quoted in Cynthia L. Haven, Evolution of Desire: A Life of Rene Girard
Job’s Friends
The friends cannot be expected to recognize their own injustice. As with all those who create scapegoats, they consider their victim to be guilty. Therefore, for them, there is no scapegoat….In Job’s eyes, the three…
Today’s One-Liner (#259)
Jesus came to blind those who have clear sight and to give sight to the blind; to heal the sick and let the healthy die; to call sinners to repentance and justify them, and to…
A Long Way to Go
Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they see themselves fall into them, thinking themselves to have been saints already; and thus they become angry…
Today’s One-Liner (#258)
Many people take pride even in their humility. ––Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #379
Reciting by Heart
When I use my memory, I ask it to produce whatever it is that I wish to remember. Some things it produces immediately; some are forthcoming only after a delay, as though they were being…
Today’s One-Liner (#257)
Let me tell you, my God, how I squandered the brains you gave me on foolish delusions. –Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin
The Hourly Battle
With every vice, virtue becomes more difficult, but still possible. With every virtue, additional virtue becomes less difficult, but vice is always still possible. Life is spiritual warfare, and both sides are very much alive….