Category: Wisdom Traditions

If Not Now, When?

For I felt that I was still the captive of my sins, and in my misery I kept crying ’How long shall I go on saying “tomorrow, tomorrow”? Why not now? Why not make an…

Today’s One-Liner (#337)

The Catholic who engages in philosophy is part of a tradition that stretches back through the centuries,  and his task is to appropriate that patrimony and make it part of the contemporary conversation. –Ralph McInerny, I…

Keep Track

Yet who can tell how many times each day our curiosity is tempted  by the most trivial and insignificant matters? Who can tell how often  we give way?   –Saint Augustine,  Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin,…

Psalmophilia

How I cried out to you, my God, when I read the Psalms of David,  those hymns of faith, those songs of a pious heart in which the spirit  of pride can find no place!…

Today’s One-Liner (#335)

But Joan heard in the whole long story of the Passion and Death of the Lord only two things: He knew that He would not be able to save all, yet He undertook the task,…

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…