Tag: Jesus

Today’s One-Liner (#335)

But Joan heard in the whole long story of the Passion and Death of the Lord only two things: He knew that He would not be able to save all, yet He undertook the task,…

Today’s One-Liner (#332)

To meditate each petition of the Lord’s Prayer, trying to enter into the sentiments of Jesus himself when he pronounced it, would doubtless be a good manner of praying. –Raissa Maritain, Notes on the Lord’s Prayer,…

How to Start

… if we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves. Unfortunately, that is not where most people begin. Most of the leaders I have met, both here and in India, strike a…

Take Your Pick

What is the essence of Christ’s ministry? He teaches men “not to commit stupidities.” All of Tolstoy’s brutal empiricism and aristocratic impatience resound in that extraordinary answer. The Dostoevskyan Christ, on the contrary, teaches men…

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,…

Catholic Jack

As Kerouac aged, he reclaimed the Catholic identity he had inherited from his devout parents, although to the reader, the influence was often muffled under the Benzedrine and booze-fueled bacchanalia of his youth, especially when…

Microscopic Goodness

Grushenka recounts a Rus­sian folktale about a wicked ­woman who dies and is condemned to the burning lake. Pitying her, her guardian angel recalls that the woman did one good deed in her life: she…

Today’s One-Liner (#265)

Peter’s denial is a spectacular example: as soon as he finds himself surrounded by people hostile to Jesus, he imitates their hostility.  — René Girard, All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings Selected by…

Today’s One-Liner (#259)

Jesus came to blind those who have clear sight and to give sight to the blind; to heal the sick and let the healthy die; to call sinners to repentance and justify them, and to…