These Two

[Dale] Carnegie commanded anyone wishing to acquire truly extensive and precise diction to give over his days and nights to the Bible and Shakespeare. So I began to read these two sacred texts at bedtime. …

Long Live Reason

To judge one’s own judgment: this can only be done by the reason, which reflects on its own act and knows the relation between that upon which it judges and that by which it judges….

Today’s One-Liner (#235)

We are not free unless we are good, and we are not good unless we listen to reason. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas–350+ Ways Your Mind Can Help You Become…

Ecclesiastes

Compared with the neat little nostrums of comfort-mongering minds who cross our t’s and dot our i’s, Ecclesiastes is as great, as deep, and as terrifying as the ocean. If this philosopher were alive today…

Turning

It is at those moments when we are, as we say, in a bad mood, when we feel incapable of the elevation of soul that befits holy things, it is then that it is most…

Today’s One-Liner (#230)

I don’t find anything comparable to the magnificent beauty of a soul and its marvelous capacity.  –Saint Teresa of Avila, quoted from The Interior Castle in Rosemary Broughton, Praying with Teresa of Avila