September 2009
31 posts
“The hidden life of love is in the most inward depths, unfathomable, and still...”
– Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
August 2009
33 posts
“The idea of embodiment helps us to understand why involuntary...”
– Roger Scruton, Sexual Desire
“But you should not for that reason hold back your words anymore than you should...”
– Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
“Unless thou deny thyself, thou shalt not have perfect liberty.”
– Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
“Love, of course, is not merely a matter of feeling. Real love is willing.”
– George Kelly, The Catholic Marriage Manual
“Young couples echoing the cliches of popular magazines may say that marriage is...”
– George A.Kelly, The Catholic Marriage Manual
“We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite,...”
– G. K. Chesterton
“It is a good exercise to try for once in a way to express any opinion one holds...”
– G. K. Chesterton
“It is often much better to learn to accept one’s poverty and powerlessness...”
– Jacques Philippe, Time for God, p. 97
“To love is to give everything and to give oneself.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux
“[T]ime is not always the real problem. The real problem is knowing what really...”
– Jacques Philippe, Time for God, p. 26
“Anything can happen when you live in the moment, one step at a time. But to find...”
– Mark Soehner
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
“[T]here are four levels of sovereign security. These are peace, order, law, and...”
– Mencius Moldbug
“Conscience has been outsourced, delegated away.
So, in place of an inner code,...”
– Jonathan Sacks
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder...”
– C. S. Lewis
“I want to invite you to ‘dare to love’. Do not desire anything less...”
– Pope Benedict XVI
“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy,...”
– Pope Paul VI
“How beautiful, then, the marriage of two Christians, two who are one in hope,...”
– Tertullian
“Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without...”
– Mr. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House
“People travel to wonder at the heights of the mountaintops, at the huge waves of...”
– St. Augustine
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
– Parkinson’s Law
“We have a deep need to meet with the mercy of God, to feel radically understood...”
– John Paul II
“A woman is not accidentally maternal; she is essentially so.”
– Fr. Angelo Mary Geiger
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
– Albert Einstein
“True love between a man and a woman, so far from being a matter of bodily urges...”
– Kathleen van Schaijik
“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can...”
– Thomas Carlyle
“[Those] who allow themselves to be unduly influenced by the siren calls of the...”
– George Kelly, The Catholic Marriage Manual
“The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and...”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Real freedom does not mean being ruled by one’s impulses from one moment...”
– Jacques Philippe, Time for God, p. 31