Today’s One-Liner (#277)
We are to keep our eyes on Him (and on our neighbors’ needs) rather than on ourselves. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas
Tag: God
The “D” Word
When you get right down to it, every death is disaster. Death is a total, utter negation of everything that leads up to it. Many nonbelievers, in their more honest moments, admit the unmentionable: death…
Today’s One-Liner (#257)
Let me tell you, my God, how I squandered the brains you gave me on foolish delusions. –Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin
Today’s One-Liner (#241)
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. –Gerard Manley Hopkins
Today’s One-Liner (#148)
In Poor Folk we have the first timid and hesitant expression of the great theme of theodicy, the questioning of the wisdom of the world created by God—thus a questioning of God himself—that will ultimately…
Good News
The meaning of order is there, but it is precisely its presence that determines the vestigial character of the treatment of it. The reason lies in the fact that the violence of the cultural order…
Today’s One-Liner (#137)
If we search for God and we are good to human beings, we are doing more or less our job. –Isaac Bashevis Singer, Conversations, edited by Grace Farrell
Today’s One-Liner (#68)
Lovers of God do not belong to any caste. –Sri Ramakrishna, in M., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Today’s One-Liner (#63)
I believe in God—Bach’s God. –Glenn Gould, in Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Today’s One-Liner (#44)
Keep God in your heart like you keep money in a safe. –Maharajji, in Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba, compiled by Ram Dass