Today’s One-Liner (#40)
We have all known the long loneliness, and we know that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community. –Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
Category: Catholicism
Today’s One-Liner (#38)
But I want to seek out a means of going to heaven by a little way, a way that is very straight, very short, and totally new. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
Today’s One-Liner (#35)
Our legacy is Jesus and the saints. –Daniel Berrigan, S.J., The Kings and Their Gods: The Pathology of Power
Today’s One-Liner (#33)
Worry is probably the most energy-inefficient activity the mind is prone to. –Eknath Easwaran, Seeing with the Eyes of Love: Reflections on a Classic of Christian Mysticism, 159
Today’s One-Liner (#32)
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. –Saint Teresa of Avila Given Institute
Today’s One-Liner (#28)
Few people want to be saints nowadays, but everybody is trying to lose weight. ––René Girard, Maxim #30, in All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, edited by Cynthia L. Haven.
That Divine Spark
A few weeks ago, I was having lunch at the Vine with Natalie, when I learned more about her keen interest in Thérèse of Lisieux, such that I asked her to consider doing a Share…