1) G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy 2) C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity 3) E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed 4) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 5) Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien 6) Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You 7) Dorothy Sayers, The Whimsical Christian 8) J….
What I call “another sort of learning” is the finding and reading those seminal books that take us to the truth and order of things. ––James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught
In mental prayer, shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. –Saint John Vianney, quoted in Mother Teresa, Everything Starts from Prayer: Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths, selected and…
Mother Teresa of Calcutta did not become an international icon of selfless generosity despite her belief in Jesus Christ, the only Son of God and the unique savior of the world; she lifted the wretched…
Deliver us from that unparalleled sorrow of seeing those we love suffer without remedy. Deliver us from spiritual darkness. Deliver us from anguish, which is doubtless the state of suffering on which the Holy Spirit…
And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. –The Lord’s Prayer
I remember some time ago I visited a very wonderful home for old people. There were about forty people there and they had everything, but they were all looking toward the door. There was not…
Everything depends on these words: “I will” or”I will not.” –Mother Teresa, Everything Starts from Prayer: Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths, selected and Arranged by Anthony Stern, 42
Now the preaching of St. Francis was on this wise: “My sisters the birds, much are ye beholden unto God your creator, and alway and in every place ought ye to praise Him, because He…
Be praised, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens you have made them, precious and beautiful. –Saint Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun, translated by Bill Barrett from the Umbrian…