February 2012
3 posts
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“Our real and true bliss lies in the possession of those objects on which our...”
– Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman
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“The Good - you hear this word and you take a deep breath; you hear it and you...”
– St. Augustine
January 2012
8 posts
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“At the heart of every culture, whether perceived or not, is a consensus about...”
– Pope Benedict XVI
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“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has...”
– Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta , “Notable and Quotable”, Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94 , p. A14
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“…for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to...”
– Socrates, Ion
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“Our single object and ambition was virtue, and a life of hope in the blessings...”
– St. Gregory Nazianzen
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“Be intent on things above rather than on things of earth. After all, you have...”
– Colossians 3:2-3
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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What!...”
– C.S. Lewis
December 2011
7 posts
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“He who walks in love can neither go astray nor be afraid: love guides him,...”
– St. Fulgentius of Ruspe
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“The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by....”
– From, The Tree of Life movie
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“Yet there is another, interior kind of prayer without ceasing, namely, the...”
– St. Augustine
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“Love thy God, and love Him only,
And thy breast will ne’er be lonely.
In...”
– De Vere
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“The strength of love ought to overcome the fear of death
When the Lord asks...”
– From a treatise on John by Saint Augustine, bishop
November 2011
10 posts
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“To support one another in the things of the spirit is the true sign of good will...”
– St. John Chrysostom
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“Man’s heart is sufficiently prone to make excuse for man’s...”
– George Crabbe
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“That person is truly great who has great love.”
– Thomas Á Kempis
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“For us who are Christians, philosophy can only be the love of wisdom; but...”
– Petrarch
“Accordingly, as soon as we escape from the pressure of necessary cares,...”
– Cicero?
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“‘Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.”
– King Lear, Shakespeare
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“Beauty will save the world.”
– Dostoevsky
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“Late have I loved you, O Beauty, so ancient and so new, late have I loved...”
– St. Augustine
“And what is the object of my love?
I asked the earth and it said: ‘It is not...”
– St. Augustine, Confessions (via notyourgramma)
October 2011
9 posts
3 tags
“Those who only look at themselves do ever radiate nothing”
– A Far Eastern Proverb
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“Only the lover sings
Cantare amantis est”
– St. Augustine
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“Your word is a lamp for my steps
and a light for my path.
I have sworn and...”
– Psalm 119:105-112
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“I come home from the soaring
in which I lost myself.
I was song, and the...”
– Book of Hours, Rilke
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“I love you, gentlest of Ways,
who ripened us as we wrestled with you.
You,...”
– Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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“(To the younger brother)
Now pray,
as I who came back from the same confusion...”
– Book of Hours, Rainer Maria Rilke
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“And the danger lies in this, that crafty agitators are intent on making use of...”
– Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII
September 2011
7 posts
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“If it is not by herself (Mary the Mother of God) that she gives these counsels,...”
– St. Louis-Marie De Montfort
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“With a hymn composed in the eighth or ninth century, thus for over a thousand...”
– Spe Salvi, 49
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“Whoever has the ordo amoris (order of love) of a man has the man himself.”
– Max Scheler
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“Man knows so little about his fellows.”
– William Faulkner
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Josh Garrels
Last night, I finally got to see Josh Garrels, live, in Encinitas. Watching him play and being surrounded by people who enjoy and are moved by his music was beautiful. And, of course, hearing him share his inspirations for some of the songs was a huge blessing. He’s definitely got a gift from God, and he is using it to bring Light and Truth into the world’s brokenness.
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On beauty as a way to God →
fathershane:
Pope Benedict at his best.
Art is capable of expressing, and of making visible, man’s need to go beyond what he sees; it reveals his thirst and his search for the infinite. Indeed, it is like a door opened to the infinite, [opened] to a beauty and a truth beyond the every day. And a work of art can open the eyes of the mind and heart, urging us upward.
But there are artistic...
August 2011
5 posts
“He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and...”
– Proverbs 28:13
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“You can turn water into wine, but you can’t turn whining into anything!”
– Cardinal Seán O’Malley (via belovedmegan)
“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search...”
– Proverbs 25:2
“It is quite true that the view of other creatures, however holy, may perhaps at...”
– True Devotion to Mary, St. Louis-Marie De Monfort
July 2011
16 posts
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“[The priest] must possess and pass on that ‘knowledge of God’ which...”
– Bl. John Paul II