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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

In the evening of our lives, we will be judged on our love.
— St. John of the Cross #

Monday, February 8, 2010

The law He gave was clear: life is a struggle, unless there is a Cross in our lives, there will never be an empty tomb; unless there is the crown of thorns, there will never be the halo of light; unless there is a Good Friday, there will never be an Easter Sunday.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 435 #

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Who could now play the role of Maria [in the Sound of Music], as Julie Andrews played it? She was womanly, tender, cheerful, largehearted, and, dare I say it, properly submissive; and if she had instead been a caricature of these things, if she had been bitchy, touchy, prim, emotionally unruly, or a doormat, why on earth would any sane man propose to her? Captain von Trapp is attracted to the woman in her, the woman who can at one time rebuke him for ignoring his children, and then, when he has regained his senses, be the delegate of his authority and his love, in taking care of the children as their mother.
— Anthony Esolen, A Lot of Sound, No Music #

Saturday, February 6, 2010

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.
— Seth Godin, Linchpin #

Friday, February 5, 2010

Time is an illusion of the mind. Only love remains.
— Michael O’Brien, Eclipse of the Sun, p. 140 #

Thursday, February 4, 2010

She was the sort of beauty who wasn’t vain, which made her twice as beautiful in his eyes. She was intelligent, creative, humorous, knew how to forgive without holding onto price tags, and she had that elusive thing he had vaguely identified as character.
— Michael O’Brien, Eclipse of the Sun, p. 123 #

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 198 #1

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

A rusty old shield one day prayed, “O sun, illumine me”; and the sun answered, “First, polish yourself.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 185 #

Monday, February 1, 2010

All one has to do to learn the faults of men is to listen to their favorite charges against others.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 183 #

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Vicious people like a monopoly on their vices, and when they find others with the same vices, they condemn them with an intensity the good never feel.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 183 #

Saturday, January 30, 2010

For the end of the world was long ago—
And all we who dwell today
As children of some second birth,
Like strange people left on earth
After a judgement day.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse #
The truly good man feels the world is the way it is because in some way he has not been better.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 173 #

Friday, January 29, 2010

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
— J. B. Priestley #

Thursday, January 28, 2010

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
— G.K. Chesterton #
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller #

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