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…
Category: Wisdom Traditions
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…
Today’s One-Liner (#286)
To live by love is to go through life, sowing peace and joy in hearts. –Francis Broome, The Little Way for Every Day: Thoughts from Thérèse of Lisieux
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…
Today’s One-Liner (#285)
Complain as little as possible about the wrongs you suffer. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. John K. Ryan
Love Is the Way
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is lovable. To think only on these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather…
Today’s One-Liner (#277)
We are to keep our eyes on Him (and on our neighbors’ needs) rather than on ourselves. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas
Today’s One-Liner (#275)
Though meditation you can learn to stand back from the heat of mental processes that are raging out of control. –Sri Eknath Easwaran, Seeing with the Eyes of Love: Reflections on a Classic of Christian…
Microscopic Goodness
Grushenka recounts a Russian folktale about a wicked woman who dies and is condemned to the burning lake. Pitying her, her guardian angel recalls that the woman did one good deed in her life: she…