February 2012
10 posts
“Let us love humility, and we shall behold the glory of God.”
– St. Seraphim of Sarov
“If we keep remembering the wrongs men have done us, we destroy the power of the...”
– St. Macarius the Great
“Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the...”
– St. John Climacus
“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is...”
– Stacia Tauscher
“You ask me, [Obama] should have put that mother-f*!cker on ice and defrosted his...”
– Samuel L. Jackson on Osama bin Laden - @davecatanese (via brooklynmutt)
January 2012
10 posts
“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Christians were never meant to be normal.”
– Jacques Ellul
“The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.”
– St. John Chrysostom
December 2011
24 posts
“Under the gaze of vintage Italian posters and forests of empty wine bottles,...”
– You go, Groupon copywriter. Don’t let that email-as-medium fact hold you back. (via newsweek)
“He who gives to a poor person gives to God.”
– St. Theophan the Recluse
“Many of the burning theological issues in the church today are neither burning...”
– Brennan Manning
“You cannot bring peace to others if you do not have it yourself.”
– Fr. Alexander Elchaninov
“It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.”
– Martin Luther
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and...”
– Garrison Keillor
(via pumpkinannieposts)
“Lord, just please don’t let me die chomping on a piece of lettuce.”
– Paula Deen to Good Housekeeping (via today)
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
– Simone Weil
“Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.”
– Jonathan Lockwood Hui
“Let us not grieve when we make a slip, but when we become hardened by it.”
– St. Isaac the Syrian
November 2011
49 posts
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life...”
– Francis Chan
“Jesus didn’t come to make us Christian, he came to make us fully human.”
– Hans Rookmaaker
