Today’s One-Liner (#122)
The work of extending your goodness and correcting your faults must never stop. –Liu Wenmin, J. C. Cleary, Worldly Wisdom: Confucian Teachings of the Ming Dynasty
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Today’s One-Liner (#120)
“[God] has always given me what I desired, or rather He has made me desire what He wishes to give.” –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul
Recent Reading
Sohrab Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…
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
Today’s One-Liner (#115)
There are three crowns: the crown of learning, the crown of priesthood, and the crown of royalty; but the crown of a good name excels them all. –R. Simeon, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the…
Thought of the Day
There are people who ponder about their friends’ shortcomings: there’s nothing to be gained by that. I have always been on the look-out for the merits of my opponents and this has been rewarding. –Johann…
Something I Came across in “First Things”
Alyosha Karamazov suffers tormenting doubt because the miracle he expected does not occur. But when he finds himself engaged in active love in consoling Grushenka, he discovers a faith that is compatible with uncertainty. That…
Today’s One-Liner (#113)
When we keep pointing a finger of judgment at others, we are teaching our mind a lasting habit of condemnation. –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, 160
Today’s One-Liner (#111)
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. –Yogi Berra
Advice from 1921
Therefore, be slow to speak and slow to go to those places where people speak, because in many words the spirit is poured out like water; by your amiability to all, purchase the right really…