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.”
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…”
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?”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Claiming Responsibility for Our Lives: Thomas Merton on Discovering Meaning and Purpose Within
“Although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling.”