Category: Wisdom Traditions

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….

In Pursuit of Holiness

Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), a Frenchman, a layman, and a convert to Catholicism, became one of the most prominent figures in the Thomistic Revival. During World War II, the Maritains found themselves with other exiles in…

Simplify

For there are only three kinds of good. So if a thing is not virtuous, useful, or pleasant, it’s not really good. So fagetaboutit! Simplify your life by throwing out all the things you have…

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…

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…

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…