Today’s One-Liner (#118)
Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly. –Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Category: Catholicism
Know Thyself
Success in every order is always attained on the same conditions: to reflect at the start, to begin at the beginning, to proceed methodically, to advance slowly, to give out all one’s strength. But the…
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
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…
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 (#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 (#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…
Listening to the Stones, I Thought of Saint Teresa
Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to loveSometimes you ain’t got nobody and you want somebody to loveThen you don’t want to walk and talk about JesusYou just want to see His face…
Today’s One-Liner (#90)
The fight for the dignity of all human life—and ultimately for a world that is more just, more beautiful, and more loving—needs all of us. –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change…
Today’s One-Liner (#88)
Don’t let the bastards grind you down. –Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., quoted in Karen Hall, The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of a Heroic Jesuit Priest