Today’s One-Liner (#256)
“My daughter, ask for nothing other than the cross, and that, in fact, without consolation; for that is perfection.” –Saint John of the Cross to María Machuca, cited in Edith Stein, The Science of the…
Tag: Perfection
Moving toward Perfection
When Turgenev pleaded with him to return to the literary art that had first won him fame, he did not understand that for Tolstoy the measure of true greatness was not what we were but…