On Living the Christian Life
… as you look to [Jesus], hoist your sails and buffet manfully the seas of life. Do not remain in the haven of distrust … of suffering your frames and feelings to pitch and toss on one another like vessels idly moored in a harbor. The religious life is not a brooding over emotions, grazing […]
On All Things Working Together for Good…
God doesn’t plan the horrors. They happen. But God can come into them. — Madeleine L’Engle, A Live Coal in the Sea
Be Yourself
Trying to be what I am not, and cannot be, is not only arrogant, it is stupid. … If I make myself a martyr to appease my false guilt, then I am falling into the age-old trap of pride. — Madeleine L’Engle in The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
The Successful Life
I can think of no better epitaph than “He helped others to better themselves.” If that’s what they end up saying about me, I will have been able to consider my life a success. —Alex Lickerman, in his blog “Happiness in This World“
Something to Ponder
For a person with no forgiveness in his heart, living is a worse punishment than death. —Miyagi San, The Karate Kid II
Moments of Growth
In every department of life, [a sense of disappointment or anticlimax] marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing. — C.S. Lewis, in The Screwtape Letters
On Life and Death
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
Don’t Take Life Too Seriously
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. — Herodotus
On Death
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. — Epicurus
On Euthanasia
The claimed justification for euthanasia first takes the moral high ground of compassion. When a truer form of compassion is found in palliative care, the ground shifts to an appeal to human rights, especially to the sovereignty of self-determination. — Luke Gormally