January 2010
32 posts
“Vicious people like a monopoly on their vices, and when they find others with...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 183
Jan 31st
“For the end of the world was long ago— And all we who dwell today As...”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
Jan 31st
“The truly good man feels the world is the way it is because in some way he has...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 173
Jan 30th
“Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.”
– J. B. Priestley
Jan 29th
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
– G.K. Chesterton
Jan 29th
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard,...”
– Helen Keller
Jan 28th
“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes...”
– Ingrid Bergmen
Jan 27th
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“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering...”
– Kahlil Gibran
Jan 26th
“The world is a book, and those who don’t travel read only one page.”
– St. Augustine
Jan 25th
“Every time I think of exercise, I have to lie down until the feeling leaves me.”
– from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Jan 24th
“The wildlife here is not like you’re used to. They wear high heels.”
– from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Jan 23rd
“The novitiate of marriage must necessarily embrace two elements: the...”
– Fulton Sheen, Love Dreams
Jan 22nd
“A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal...”
– Fulton Sheen, Love Dreams
Jan 21st
“To know a woman at the hour of desire, one must first respect her at the...”
– A French author, as quoted by Fulton Sheen in Love Dreams.
Jan 20th
“Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves. What...”
– Fulton Sheen, Love Dreams
Jan 19th
“Relax, Happy. Stop having kittens.”
– from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Jan 18th
“Everything is a grace… Everything is the direct effect of our...”
– St. Therese of Lisieux
Jan 17th
“Sacrifice does not mean “giving-up” something, as if there were a...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 167
Jan 16th
“Expect the grass to wither and the birds to drop dead out of the air, when a...”
– G.K. Chesterton
Jan 15th
“Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 150
Jan 14th
“Lust is sex in the wrong place.”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 147
Jan 13th
“In the reckoning of men there is always a deficit; in the arithmetic of God,...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 135
Jan 12th
“Nature was to go as far as it could, then God supplied the rest.”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 135
Jan 11th
“Skepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 132
Jan 10th
“A future life is denied not so much by the way one things as by the way one...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 132
Jan 8th
“Belief in immortality dies easily in those who live in such a way that they...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 132
Jan 7th
“The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 127
Jan 6th
“The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 127
Jan 5th
“Love knows no limits.”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 122
Jan 4th
“What He taught was self-crucifixion: to love those who hate us; to pluck out...”
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 119
Jan 3rd
Jan 2nd
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to...”
– J. B. Priestley
Jan 1st