Today’s One-Liner (#56)
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. –Mother Teresa
Category: Catholicism
Saints, Mystics, and the Neighbor Next Door: A Class in Inspiration and Imitation
[T]oday it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.—Simone Weil, Waiting for God For [Dorothy] Day,…
Share the Wealth with Natalie Long– Thérèse of Lisieux: The Saint of the Quotidian
Born in 1873, Thérèse of Lisieux entered into this world as the youngest daughter of a devout Catholic family. By the time she passed away at the age of twenty-four, Thérèse was a Carmelite nun…
Today’s Two-Liner (#54)
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and leftuntried. –G. K.Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
How to Deal with the Clickers
The practice of charity, as I have said, dear Mother, was not always so sweet for me, and to prove it to you I am going to recount certain little struggles which will certainly make…
Today’s One-Liner (#51)
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. –Mother Teresa
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Not a door in the house had a lock. The door of the dining-room which, we have mentioned, opened into the cathedral grounds, was formerly loaded with bars and bolts like the door of a…
Today’s One-Liner (#48)
It is this attitude—this unblinking alertness to the meaning of each moment— that probably accounts for the intense compression of Thérèse’s spiritual development. –Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
Today’s One-Liner (#40)
We have all known the long loneliness, and we know that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community. –Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
Today’s One-Liner (#38)
But I want to seek out a means of going to heaven by a little way, a way that is very straight, very short, and totally new. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul