What Is Compassion, Really, and How Can We Truly Practice It?
“If we long to be in the world who God is, then, somehow, our compassion has to find its way to vastness.”
10 Essential Truths from C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Sometimes to Move Forward, We Have to Go Backward
“My friends, all I’m trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we’ve got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we’ve left behind.”
Be Still: The Desert Fathers on the Value of Solitude
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”