Category: Wisdom Traditions

Today’s One-Liner (#294)

The Church’s claim is that we reach our fulfillment as human beings not by asserting ourselves, but by giving ourselves—by making ourselves into the gift to others that life itself is to us.  –George Weigel,…

Today’s One-Liner (#293)

This is that conquest of the world and of ourselves, which has been always considered as the perfection of human nature; and this is only to be obtained by fervent prayer, steady resolution, and frequent…

Today’s One-Liner (#292)

The four cardinal natural virtues are fertilizer for the spiritual soil in which the three theological virtues are to grow.  –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas, 113

Today’s One-Liner (#290)

It is a comfort to me, that at last, in my sixty-third year, I have attained to know, even thus hastily, confusedly, and imperfectly, what my Bible contains. –Samuel Johnson, cited in Fiona MacMath, The…

What Makes for Peace

Do not think yourself better than others lest, perhaps, you be accounted worse before God Who knows what is in man. Do not take pride in your good deeds, for God’s judgments differ from those…

Today’s One-Liner (#288)

A spiritual man quickly recollects himself because he has never wasted his attention upon externals. –Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, translated by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton

Calcutta Is Everywhere

You will find Calcutta all over the world if you have eyes to see. The streets of Calcutta lead to every man’s door. I know you may want to make trip to Calcutta, but it…

Right Focus

You will never be devout of heart unless you are thus silent about the affairs of others and pay particular attention to yourself. If you attend wholly to God and yourself, you will be little…