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Quotes from Pensées, by Blaise Pascal. “Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. “Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. “Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our…
The definitions of love are too numerous to count. Here is one that I find incredibly powerful: “To love is to will the good of another.” — St. Thomas Aquinas Simple on the surface but rich with meaning, it’s hard…
Fancies Versus Fads is a 1923 collection of 30 previously published essays by G.K. Chesterton, covering a wide range of topics including modernity, feminism, divorce, poetry, drama, literature, education, progressivism, and prohibition. Here Chesterton is at his wittiest, most penetrating,…
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Originally…
Why not turn to Seinfeld for moral instruction? FIRST LESSON: OBEDIENCE SECOND LESSON: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL THIRD LESSON: VISIT THE SICK FOURTH LESSON: THOU SHALT HAVE NO STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME LESSON FIVE: HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY Reflection…