Author: Mark J. Chmiel

Today’s One-Liner (#325)

I believe in Buddha kindness and nothing else, I believe in Heaven, in Angels, I eschew all Marxism and allied horseshit and psychoanalysis, and offshoot therefrom. –Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, January 1958

Keep at It

If there is one thing I have learned from Mother Angelica and Father Fessio, two of the brightest stars in the Church today, it is that good ideas ought to be pursued, and then one…

Today’s One-Liner (#324)

The great authors, those to whom we go back again and again throughout our lives, Shakespeare and Dante, for example, are inexhaustible.  –Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You:  My Life and Pastimes,…

Learn from the Saints

Look at the example given by saints in every walk of life. There is nothing that they have not done in order to love God and be his devoted followers.  –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to…

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…

Today’s One-Liner (#322)

The Bible has always been restricted in communist countries because it is an agent for change.   –A pastor, quoted in Robert Royal, The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in…

Peace Work

… I used to remind my friends that agitating for peace and actually bringing it about are not necessarily the same. Stirring up passions, provoking animosity, and polarizing opposition may sometimes produce short-term gains, but…

A Brother’s Gift

To the Jews who, in the sixties, envied the Black Power Movement; who in the nineties envied the Palestinians; who weep at Exodus but jeer at the Israel Defense Forces; who nod when Tevye praises…