Today’s One-Liner (#108)
Nothing is more difficult to overcome than the problems we thought were already overcome.–Alexis de Tocqueville, via my friend Suzanne Renard
Today’s One-Liner (#107)
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love, you didn’t need to coax. –Rod Stewart, “Maggie May”
Today’s One-Liner (#106)
Instead of reading myths in the light of the Gospels, people have always read the Gospels in light of myths. –Rene Girard, Maxim #104, in All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, edited…
Today’s One-Liner (#105)
Be not too hasty to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men. –Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia
Today’s One-Liner (#104)
I will take pains to humble my arrogance. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, quoted in Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
Today’s One-Liner (#103)
I accept the torment of accusation and of my disgrace before all, I want to suffer and be purified by suffering! –Dmitri Karamazov, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
A Poet’s Life
Yankev Glatshteyn worked in over fifty sweatshops. –Janet Hadda, Yankev Glatshteyn
Today’s One-Liner (#102)
But if we understand that it was truly under the inspiration of his divine Master that St. Francis did these merely quaint or eccentric acts of charity, we must understand that it was under the…
Listening to the Stones, I Thought of Saint Teresa
Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to loveSometimes you ain’t got nobody and you want somebody to loveThen you don’t want to walk and talk about JesusYou just want to see His face…
Today’s One-Liner (#101)
It took me a long time to get to do consciously what I used to be able to do unconsciously. –Bob Dylan, in Jonathan Cott, Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews