Friday, May 21, 2010
Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The evil of our times consists in the first place in a kind of degradation, indeed in a pulverization, of the fundamental uniqueness of each human person. This evil is even more of the metaphysical order than of the moral order. To this disintegration planned at times by atheistic ideologies we must oppose, rather than sterile polemics, a kind of “recapitulation” of the inviolable mystery of the person.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Friday, April 30, 2010
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
Monday, April 26, 2010
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
— Matthew Arnold,
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
The union of the mathematician with the poet,
fervor with measure,
passion with correctness,
this surely is the ideal.
— William James, Collected Essays
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Friday, April 16, 2010
When we do not suffer at all, our love is then neither great nor pure.
— St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 303
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
When we suffer much we have a great chance to show God that we love Him.
— St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 303
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