O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)... Read more.
You people of Vitebsk want to put me to death. You make ambushes for me everywhere, in the streets, on the bridges, on the highways, and in the marketplace. I am... Read more.
Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. (Saint Martin of Tours, +397)... Read more.
Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive. (John 20:38)... Read more.
My fellow Christians, do we wish to celebrate joyfully the birth of this temple? Then let us not destroy the living temples of God in ourselves by works of evil.... Read more.
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they... Read more.
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness (G.K. Chesterton)... Read more.
The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right. (G.K. Chesterton)... Read more.
We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: “I will pray, and then I will understand.” This is the way we can easily... Read more.
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. (Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester’s, dying words, as quoted... Read more.