Re-readable
Sometimes, it is sobering to reflect the entire corpus of the New Testament covers a mere 243 pages in the English Revised Standard Edition. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be literate do…
Tag: James V. Schall
Today’s One-Liner (#214)
We might suggest this rich young man was one of Christ’s conspicuous failures along with, say, Judas, one of the thieves, the scribes, Pontius Pilate, Herod, and some of His home-town relatives. –James V. Schall,…
Books You’ll Never Be Graded on Except by Reality
1. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Genesis, the Psalms. 2. The Gospel according to St. John. 3. St. Augustine, The Confessions 4. Plato, The Apology; The Crito; The Phaedo 5. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. 6. The Epistles of St. Paul….
Today’s One-Liner (#211)
Most universities today are so structured that they have no time for reading Aristotle or Aquinas. James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught, 114
(Back to) Augustine
But there comes a time when we know that something is missing. And when this time comes, we need to know where to turn. Often, I will suggest, we should turn to Augustine himself. Without…
Today’s One-Liner (#203)
…Chesterton was quite sure that one of the great arguments for being a Christian was that it enabled us to understand the real nature and depths of evil in ourselves and in the world. –James…
Today’s One-Liner (#199)
The sinner is the very heart of Christianity. –Charles Péguy, cited by James V. Schall, The Classical Moment
Today’s One-Liner (#168)
We live in a culture dominated by a lower vision. –James V. Schall, S.J., On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing
Today’s One-Liner (#160)
I read something from Boswells’ Life of Johnson almost every day. –James V. Schall, On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing
Today’s One-Liner (#156)
Someone who knows Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Augustine, or Aquinas will never be too far from the truth, never out-of-date. –James V. Schall, S.J., A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning