Stand still, and allow the strange, deadly restlessness of our tragic age to fall away like the worn-out, dusty cloak that it is--a cloak that was once considered beautiful. The restlessness was considered the magic carpet of tomorrow, but now in reality we see it for what it is: a running away from oneself, a turning from that journey inward that all men must undertake to meet God dwelling within the depths of their souls. Stand still, and look deep into the motivations of life. Are they such that true foundations of sanctity can be built on them? For truly we have been born to be saints - lovers of Love who died for us! “There is but one tragedy: not to be a saint.”

Catherine Doherty Poustinia February 4th, 2011
 

There is but one tragedy: not to be a saint

Leon Bloy  February 4th, 2011
 

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato   November 11th, 2010
 

The person who keeps what he has without sharing what he does not need is worse than the thief who stole what he needs to survive.

Leo Tolstoy  November 10th, 2010
 

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Anne Dillard  November 8th, 2010
 

Let us always long to hear the stories of grace in others' lives. Every conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

C.S. Lewis  November 7th, 2010
 

The question of truth, with which theology is concerned throughout, is the question as to the agreement of the Church's distinctive talk about God with the being of the church...(Jesus Christ). Does Christian utterance derive from Him? Does it lead to Him? Is it conformable to Him?

Karl Barth Church Dogmatics 1.1, pg 4 November 5th, 2010
 

What we seem to be faced with is the existence of a community which was perceived to be subverting the normal social and cultural life of the empire precisely by its quasi-familial, quasi-ethnic life as a community. . . . It was a new family, a ‘third race,’ neither Jew nor Gentile but ‘in Christ.’ Its very existence threatened the foundational assumptions of pagan society... What evokes persecution is precisely that which challenges a worldview, that which up ends a symbolic universe.”

N. T. Wright The New Testament and the People of God October 22nd, 2010
 

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined first.

Virginia Woolf  October 18th, 2010
 

To find my home in one sentence, concise, as if hammered in metal. Not to enchant anybody. Not to earn a lasting name in posterity. An unnamed need for order, for rhythm, for form, which three words are opposed to chaos and nothingness.

Czeslaw Milosz Unattainable Earth, Pg. 141 October 15th, 2010
 

Coolness might help in your negotiation with people through the world, maybe, but it is impossible to meet God with sunglasses on. It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw. That’s the connection with great music and art, and that is why it’s uncomfortable, that is why cool is the enemy of it, because that's the other reason you wanted to join a band: you wanted to do the cool thing. Trying to capture religious experiences on tape wasn’t what you had in mind when you signed up for the job.

BONO   October 12th, 2010
 

Harmony Independent Separatist Baptist Church.

 ,Southern Kentucky church sign,  October 1st, 2010
 

Nothing is so beautiful nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy, as the good; no desert is so dreary, monotonous, and boring as evil. But with fantasy, it is the other way around. Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied, intriguing, attractive, and full of charm.

Simone Weil, whose luminous intelligence and insights are among the most penetrating of our time and bear very clearly on this not just confusion between the concepts of good and evil, but the actual replacement of one by the other,  May 25th, 2010
 

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin  May 12th, 2010