Worry Not: Søren Kierkegaard on What We Can Learn from the Birds of the Air and Lilies of the Field
“And even if what you want to accomplish in the world were the most amazing feat: you shall acknowledge the lily and the bird as your teachers…”
Thomas Merton on the Necessity of Solitude for a Healthy Society
“Gratitude is therefore the heart of the solitary life, as it is the heart of the Christian life.”
Saint Augustine on the Happy Life and Finding Joy
“The happy life is this – to rejoice to you, in you, and for you. That is it and there is no other.”
Think Carefully: Marcus Aurelius on How to Control the Mind
“To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness.”
Yielding Control: Irenaeus of Lyon On What It Means to Be a Created Being
“To create belongs to God’s goodness; to be created belongs to human nature.”
Mother Teresa’s Essential Wisdom
“Resist anything that leads to moodiness. Our prayer each day should be, ‘Let the joy of the Lord be my strength.’”
Hallelujah Anyway: Anne Lamott on Extending and Receiving Mercy in a Broken World
“What if we know that forgiveness and mercy are what heal and restore and define us, that they actually are the fragrance that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it?”