Today’s One-Liner (#232)
The soul lives when it avoids the things which it is death to seek. –Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin
The soul lives when it avoids the things which it is death to seek. –Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin
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…
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
“Rakitin,” [Alyosha Karamazov] suddenly said loudly and firmly, “don’t taunt me with having rebelled against my God. I don’t want to hold any anger against you, and therefore you be kinder, too. I’ve lost such…
Is not virtue the health of the soul? –A.G. Sertillanges, O.P. The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, trans. Mary Ryan
A healthy ego is transformed into a soul only via the burden of another who must impinge on the ego, causing the ego to shrink, as it were. –Ira F. Stone, A Responsible Life: The…