We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need to create impressions that won’t last on people we don’t care about.
~Tim Jackson, Prof. Of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey as quoted on the blog Wrestling with Angels…
Sat 31 Jul 2010
Mon 26 Jul 2010
You see, the big thing for me is to love reality and not live in the imagination, not live in what could have been or what should have been or what can be, and somewhere, to love reality and then discover that God is present.
~Jean Vanier, via Pax Christi Facebook Page
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Sat 24 Jul 2010
What good am I if I’m like all the rest
If I just turn away, when I see how you’re dressed
If I shut myself off so I can’t hear you cry
What good am I?
What good am I if I know and don’t do
If I see and don’t say, if I look right through you
If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin’ sky
What good am I?
…
What good am I if I say foolish things
And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings
And I just turn my back while you silently die
What good am I?
~Bob Dylan, from “What Good Am I?“
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Sun 11 Jul 2010
This attitude of soul towards poverty is in truth the supreme test of the genuine Franciscan spirit whether in life or in art.
~Father Cuthbert, O.S.F.C., “St. Francis and Poverty” from Franciscan Essays
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Fri 9 Jul 2010
Kissing the Leper — “Thoughts, ideas, ramblings, musings and prayers about the Catholic teaching life, and an acknowledgement of the perfect joy of suffering in Christ.” Can be found at http://www.kissingtheleper.com/.
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Thu 8 Jul 2010
He would tell his sons that she was the way of perfection, the pledge and earnest of eternal riches. No one was so greedy of gold as he of poverty; no one more careful in guarding a treasure than he in guarding this pearl of the Gospel.
~Thomas of Celano, The Second Life of St. Francis of Assisi
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Tue 29 Jun 2010
It pleases me that you should read sacred theology to the brothers so long as on account of this study they do not extinguish the spirit of holy prayer as is ordained in the Rule.
~St. Francis of Assisi, via AlmostCatholic
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Thu 24 Jun 2010
He plunged after poverty as men have dug madly for gold. And it is precisely the positive and passionate quality of this part of his personality that is a challenge to the modern mind in the whole problem of the pursuit of pleasure. There undeniably is the historical fact; and there attached to it is another moral fact almost as undeniable. It is certain that he held on this heroic or unnatural course from the moment when he went forth in his hair-shirt into the winter woods to the moment when he desired even in his death agony to lie bare upon the bare ground, to prove that he had and that he was nothing. And we can say, with almost as deep a certainty, that the stars which passed above that gaunt and wasted corpse stark upon the rocky floor had for once, in all their shining cycles round the world of labouring humanity, looked down upon a happy man.
~G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi
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Sun 13 Jun 2010
The man who is filled with the Holy Spirit speaks in different languages. These different languages are different ways of witnessing to Christ, such as humility, poverty, patience, and obedience; we speak in those languages when we reveal in ourselves these virtues to others.
~St. Anthony (via Beauty for Ashes)
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Fri 11 Jun 2010
We’re terrified of not having the answers, and sometimes assert an incorrect answer rather than make peace with the fact that we don’t know.
~Kathryn Schulz (via Ad Dominum)
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Thu 10 Jun 2010
Know then, that God no sooner finds us resolved to attain solid virtue than He sends us trials of the severest kind. Convinced of His immense love for us and His fatherly solicitude for our spiritual advancement, we ought with gratitude to drink to the dregs of the chalice that He is pleased to offer us, confident that its beneficial character will be in proportion to its bitterness.
~Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat
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Wed 9 Jun 2010
Never was any man so little afraid of his promises. His life was one riot of rash vows; of rash vows that turned out right.
~G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi
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Sun 6 Jun 2010
Many thousand things that I now partly comprehend I should have thought utterly incomprehensible, many things I now hold sacred I should have scouted as utterly superstitious, many things that seem to me lucid and enlightened now they are seen from the inside I should honestly have called dark and barbarous seen from the outside, when long ago in those days of boyhood my fancy first caught fire with the glory of Francis of Assisi.
~G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi
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Wed 2 Jun 2010
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
~C. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
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Tue 1 Jun 2010
And so we must all keep close watch over ourselves or we will be lost and turn our minds and hearts from God, because we think there is something worth having or doing, or that we will gain some advantage.
~St. Francis of Assisi, Rule of 1221
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Sun 30 May 2010
The worst error is to imagine that a Christian must try to be “sane” like everybody else, that we belong in our kind of society.
~Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable (via the post “The Real Christian” on the blog A Capuchin Journey.
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Fri 28 May 2010
Thu 27 May 2010
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve -
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for help, that I might do greater things -
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy -
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life -
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for -
But everything that I had hoped for.
Despite myself, my prayers were answered.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.
~Prayer/poem written by an anonymous Confederate soldier during the Civil War via Michael Wade blog Execupundit
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Wed 26 May 2010
Our thorns in the flesh are not arbitrary miseries; they are personal, individual and valuable challenges. Our crowns are made from them.
~Elizabeth Scalia, “A Most small-c Catholic Drama“
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Tue 25 May 2010
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