Today’s One-Liner (#52)

The day is short, and the work is great, and the laborers are sluggish, and the reward is much, and the Master is urgent. –Rabbi Tarfon, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the Fathers (or Pirke…

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Not a door in the house had a lock. The door of the dining-room which, we have mentioned, opened into the cathedral grounds, was formerly loaded with bars and bolts like the door of a…

Today’s One-Liner (#48)

It is this attitude—this unblinking alertness to the meaning of each moment— that probably accounts for the intense compression of Thérèse’s spiritual development. –Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics

Today’s One-Liner (#47)

 When he had money his visits were to the  poor; when he had none, he visited the rich.  –On Monseigneur Bienvenu, in Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1.1.5

Today’s One-Liner (#45)

Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement.   –La Rochefoucauld, Maxim #89 Everybody complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgement. #89 –Translation by…