Nov 9, 2011

The largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose.

Mar 2, 2011

The doctrine of vocation, a term that is just the Latin word for “calling,” deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer, the baker, the cooks, and the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life — the most amazing miracle of all — by means of mothers and fathers....

Mar 1, 2011

Faith, according to our Lord’s teaching, is primarily thinking; and the whole trouble with a man of little faith is that he does not think. He allows circumstances to bludgeon him.

Feb 7, 2011

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” — Soren Kierkegaard

Sep 1, 2010

“The other trouble with originality and inventiveness is that they literally pay off. Provided that you are capable of either, you will become well-off rather fast. Desirable as that may be, most of you know firsthand that nobody is as bored as the rich, for money buys time, and time is repetitive. Assuming that you are not heading for poverty, one can...

“I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.” — Mitch Hedberg

The only problem with haiku is that you just get started and then — Roger McGough

Apr 29, 2010

“This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.” — Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague

Nov 2, 2009

We begin, sometimes without realizing it, to worship things, to relate to them as persons. And in the process, we inevitably relate to other persons as if they were things.

- Edward J. Farrell
from his book Gathering the Fragments