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 Pain
Our souls do not grow if we insulate ourselves from pain. — Madeleine L’Engle, in Penguins and Golden Calves
The Strongest Weapon
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. —Ronald Reagan
The Moral Imperative
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man […]
On Dreaming
It does not do … to dwell on dreams and forget to live. — Professor Dumbledore, in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone