Today’s One-Liner (#337)
The Catholic who engages in philosophy is part of a tradition that stretches back through the centuries, and his task is to appropriate that patrimony and make it part of the contemporary conversation. –Ralph McInerny, I…
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Yet who can tell how many times each day our curiosity is tempted by the most trivial and insignificant matters? Who can tell how often we give way? –Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin,…
Today’s One-Liner (#336)
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. — Psalm 23, verse 4,…
Every Grain of Sand
Every particle of sand in the glass of time is precious to me, even if I were able to set my facts in order and give an account of them. –Saint Augustine, Confessions, 253-4, translated by…
Today’s One-Liner (#334)
[Augustine] is led from confession of sin to confession of faith and finally to confession of God’s glory. –R. S. Pine-Coffin, translator in Saint Augustine, Confessions. 16
Saint Bernadette
To the end she was what she had been at the beginning, Bernadette, the poor child of Lourdes, doing always with her might what her hand found to do, little enough though that was. And…
Today’s One-Liner (#333)
“Oh, why can’t they leave me in peace!” –Saint Bernadette Soubirous, quoted in R. H. J. Steuart, S.J., in Saints Are Not Sad: Studies in Sanctity from St. Paul to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, edited by F….
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,…
The Little Way
“Her “Little Way”, just because it meant the unremitting and minute implementing of this surrender in each and all of the little things that fill up the immensely greater portion of our lives, was in…
Today’s One-Liner (#331)
The lives of the saints are offered to us for our study in order that we may see therein at their finest and best the virtues, qualities, and motives that made them what they were….