Today’s One-Liner (#329)

The calendar of the saints tells us that the more fervently and perfectly men and women imitate Christ, the more differentiated they become. –Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You:  My Life and…

Today’s One-Liner (#317)

[I]n my work, the “bad” mimesis is always dominant, but the “good” one is of course even more important.  –Cynthia Haven, Conversations with Rene Girard:  Prophet of Envy, 131

Today’s One-Liner (#314)

When your relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis would have done.  –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes,…

Today’s One-Liner (#166)

We earnestly desire that all the faithful should study her in order to copy her, becoming children themselves; since otherwise they cannot, according to the words of the Master, arrive at the kingdom of heaven….

Today’s One-Liner (#155)

When our relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis wold have done.  —Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness, 166