January 2009
96 posts
Calvin and Hobbes for January 30, 2009 →
“It is very much the fashion at present to regard the Saviour of the world in an...”
– Newman Reader - Parochial & Plain Sermons 3 - Sermon 10
“Do you see how important it is to invoke the Holy Spirit and to allow him to...”
– Pope John Paul II
“[T]he capacity to suffer for the sake of the truth is the measure of humanity”
– “Spe Salvi” - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI on Christian Hope
“The true measure of humanity is essentially determined in relationship to...”
– “Spe Salvi” - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI on Christian Hope
“It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but...”
– “Spe Salvi” - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI on Christian Hope
“It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might...”
– “Spe Salvi” - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI on Christian Hope
“Progress towards the better, towards the definitively good world, no longer...”
– “Spe Salvi” - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI on Christian Hope
“Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their...”
– Encyclical Letter “Deus Caritas Est”
“God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work...”
– Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman (via Minor Wisdom)
“Never pay very much attention to what people say, pay attention instead to why...”
– Fulton Sheen
Public Discourse, Our Struggle for the Soul of our... →
“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.”
– Unknown
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to...”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“A “new era”—that’s what they always say just before something terrible...”
– Gnome-o-gram: “A new, unprecedented era in financial history” (Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason)
“Choose always the more difficult task.”
– Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Spouses serve as channels of grace for each other, in pursuit of their mutual...”
– Internal Conversations, vol. 25
“Our part is to dispose our humanity, as best as we can, to receive God’s...”
– Fr. Tim Gallagher
“Prayer, the Mass, is a gift.”
– Fr. Tim Gallagher
“The look of God is Love and the pouring out of gifts.”
– St. John of the Cross
“Take Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding
and my...”
– The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
“Grace mingles with human efforts.”
– Fr. Tim Gallagher
“Prayer is a relationship with God.”
– Fr. Tim Gallagher
“Magister adest et vocat te”
– Latin, “The Teacher is here and is calling you”
“We first encounter God in our sinfulness,
and only then in the goodness of...”
– St. John of the Cross
“Remember well the
exultation of the soul
after union with Love Himself
in...”
– A micropoem I wrote in January 2008
“[A] third theme grew amid the confusion, and it was unlike the others. For it...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, Ainulindalë, The Silmarillion
“This process of conversion assumes that we will fail. … That is, perhaps,...”
– Michael Scanlan, The Truth About Trouble, p34
Lonely, scared & bitter →
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Interesting datapoints. The best part though? The little red spellcheck squiggles under “shoutout” in the bottom right.
“Speak as little as possible about yourself;
Keep busy with your own affairs and...”
– Mother Teresa’s reported rules for her Sisters to follow in order to practice humility
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs (via outofthedark…courtneyj) (via marco)
“The loving is in the living”
– A poem I wrote in 2004
“Strive to express your ideas clearly. Never try to impress your reader with big...”
– Tyler G. Hicks, Successful Technical Writing 88 (1959)
“I thank you, Yahweh, with all my heart, for you have listened to the cry I...”
– Psalm 138
“What has our culture come to when, in abortion, parents kill children, and in...”
“Imagine the Potential” →
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Moving.
From the makers of immensely popular Catholic Vote comes this short film. Something worth considering on Inauguration Day and during the years to come …
Eugenic Euphemisms by William Saletan - Slate... →
“[Y]ou’ll think asking for help is a sign of weakness and, boy, are you wrong”
– Rands In Repose: What To Do When You’re Screwed
“[I]t baffles me when I run into folks who are coasting through life. Doing the...”
– Rands In Repose: What To Do When You’re Screwed
Comic for January 20, 2009 →
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The hair made me laugh.
“Humor is an intellectual puzzle, “How can this particular set of esoteric trivia...”
– Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
“First, a majority of the folks on the planet either have no idea how a computer...”
– Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
“Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves.”
– Fulton Sheen, The World’s First Love
“The secret of getting things done is to act.”
– Dante Alighieri
“[W]hen you actually meet them they have this certain something, you can’t...”
– Stand to Reason: The Man-Woman Thing
“The Catholic writer, insofar as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life...”
– If Flannery Had A Blog…: Flannery quoted by Philip Yancey in Feb 2009 “First Things”
“Remember, if it’s in the news don’t worry about it. The very...”
– Schneier on Security: “The Cost of Fearing Strangers”
“My feet fall and I do not falter, for You are there.”
– from Dancing on the Edge of the World, a poem I wrote circa 1997.