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October 2, 2015 § Leave a comment
“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.” — Thomas Merton
“When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.” — George Eliot
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September 4, 2015 § 1 Comment
“There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” — Thomas Merton
“Honor is the presence of God in man.” — Pat Conroy
“In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.” — Confucius
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August 7, 2015 § Leave a comment
“There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.” — Carol Matthau
“Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.” — Italian Proverb
“If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.” — Michel de Montaigne
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April 3, 2015 § Leave a comment
“Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“‘What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one of the central figures is fixed in what seems the reverse of his true role. Rome was almost another name for responsibility. Yet he stands for ever as a sort of rocking statue of the irresponsible. Man could do no more. Even the practical had become the impracticable. Standing between the pillars of his own judgement-seat, a Roman had washed his hands of the world.” — G.K. Chesterton
“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in spring time.” — Martin Luther
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March 6, 2015 § Leave a comment
“Your life will have a kind of perfection, although you will not be a saint. The perfection will consist in this: you will be very weak and you will make many mistakes; you will be awkward, for you will be poor in spirit and hunger and thirst for justice. You will not be perfect, but you will love. This is the gate and the way …. There is nothing greater than love. There is nothing more true than love, nothing more real.” — Eberhard Arnold
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“To expect too much compassion from yourself might be a little destructive of your own existence. Even so, at least make a try, and this goes not only for individuals but also for life itself. It’s so easy. It’s a fashionable idiocy of youth to say the world has not come up to your expectations. ‘What? I was coming, and this is all they could prepare for me?’ Throw it out. Have compassion for the world and those in it.” — Joseph Campbell
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January 9, 2015 § Leave a comment
“What one needs to do at every moment of one’s life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.” — Nikolai Berdyaev
“The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.” — Cesare Pavese
“Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.” — Ausonius
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October 3, 2014 § 3 Comments
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” — G.K. Chesterton
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has the eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” — Augustine
“In the best sense of the word [Jesus] was a radical. … His religion has so long been identified with conservatism — often conservatism of the obstinate and unyielding sort — that it is almost startling for us sometimes to remember that all the conservatism of His own times was against him, that it was the young, restless, sanguine, progressive part of the people who flocked to him.” — Phillips Brooks
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August 1, 2014 § Leave a comment
“But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness — each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked—each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.” — Herbert Butterfield
“For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility. Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits its defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.” — Will Durant
“It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.” — Kenneth Clark
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June 13, 2014 § Leave a comment
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” — Mark Twain
“Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.” — Linda Blandford
“Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it matters most, that have made it possible for evil to triumph.” — Haile Selassie
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May 9, 2014 § Leave a comment
“Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts … To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.” — Albert Schweitzer
“Trapped dreams must die.” — James Branch Cabell
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis, epitaph 
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