Category: choice

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.~ Augustine of Hippo (354-430) “Oh, that the words …

Incurvatus in se (Latin for Turned/curved inward on oneself. St. Augustine’s definition of sin.) Sin is, in truth, the hardest of all masters. In its service there is plenty …

This is true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a …

If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of …

Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life–be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others…I am alienated from my …

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And …

Just as people do not enter a war in order to enjoy war, but in order to be saved from war, so we do not enter this world in …

It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great …