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…
Today’s One-Liner (#326)
My greatest skill has been to want but little. –Henry David Thoreau, in Tim Flinders, Henry David Thoreau: Spiritual and Prophetic Writings, 15
Walking Wonders
Man is Homo ambulans. This is part of his natural law, the law of reason. This endowment enables him to get to places about his home or to the top of Mount Ranier. Walking is…
Today’s One-Liner (#325)
I believe in Buddha kindness and nothing else, I believe in Heaven, in Angels, I eschew all Marxism and allied horseshit and psychoanalysis, and offshoot therefrom. –Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, January 1958
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…
Today’s One-Liner (#324)
The great authors, those to whom we go back again and again throughout our lives, Shakespeare and Dante, for example, are inexhaustible. –Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and Pastimes,…
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 (#323)
Vain thoughts and useless plans, I abjure you. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. JK Ryan, 44
How to Start
… if we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves. Unfortunately, that is not where most people begin. Most of the leaders I have met, both here and in India, strike a…
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…