Life Is in the Collective
With the story of Thérèse, and only with her story, we see a fully realized mystic and saint portrayed as someone living at the center of a web of intense relationships: embedded, that is, in…
Tag: Carol Lee Flinders
Small Things
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. She just didn’t miss a beat. As a novice, she was exerting…
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
Saints, Mystics, and the Neighbor Next Door: A Class in Inspiration and Imitation
[T]oday it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.—Simone Weil, Waiting for God For [Dorothy] Day,…
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