Category: Wisdom Traditions

Every Grain of Sand

Every particle of sand in the glass of time is  precious to me, even if I were able to set my facts in order and give an  account of them.  –Saint Augustine, Confessions, 253-4, translated by…

Today’s One-Liner (#334)

[Augustine] is led from confession  of sin to confession of faith and finally to confession of God’s glory.  –R. S. Pine-Coffin, translator in Saint Augustine, Confessions. 16

Today’s One-Liner (#332)

To meditate each petition of the Lord’s Prayer, trying to enter into the sentiments of Jesus himself when he pronounced it, would doubtless be a good manner of praying. –Raissa Maritain, Notes on the Lord’s Prayer,…

The Little Way

“Her “Little Way”, just because it meant the unremitting and minute implementing of this surrender in each and all of the little things that fill up the immensely greater portion of our lives, was in…

Today’s One-Liner (#331)

The lives of the saints are offered to us for our study in order that we may see therein at their finest and best the virtues, qualities, and motives that made them what they were….

In Pursuit of Holiness

Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), a Frenchman, a layman, and a convert to Catholicism, became one of the most prominent figures in the Thomistic Revival. During World War II, the Maritains found themselves with other exiles in…

Simplify

For there are only three kinds of good. So if a thing is not virtuous, useful, or pleasant, it’s not really good. So fagetaboutit! Simplify your life by throwing out all the things you have…

Keep at It

If there is one thing I have learned from Mother Angelica and Father Fessio, two of the brightest stars in the Church today, it is that good ideas ought to be pursued, and then one…

Learn from the Saints

Look at the example given by saints in every walk of life. There is nothing that they have not done in order to love God and be his devoted followers.  –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to…