As a man begins to live more seriously within; he begins to live more simply without.

Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 God has no grandchildren.

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Continuing a short series about the early church: The life of the early Church lay in constant intercommunication between all its parts; its health and growth were dependent on the free circulation of the life-blood of common thought and feeling. Hence it was firmly seated first on the great lines of communication across the empire, leading from its origin in Jerusalem to its imperial center in Rome. It had already struck root in Rome within little more than twenty years after the Crucifixion, and it had become really strong in the great city about thirty years after the Apostles began to look round and out from Jerusalem. This marvelous development was possible only because the seed of the new thought floated free on the main currents of communication, which were ever sweeping back and forward between the heart of the Empire and its outlying members. Paul, who mainly directed the great movement, threw himself boldly and confidently into the life of the time; he took the Empire as it was, accepted its political conformation and arrangement, and sought only to touch the spiritual and moral life of the people.

Even a small star shines in the darkness.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

To generous souls every task is noble.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.

The Lord loves a cheerful giver. He also accepts from a grouch.

Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955 Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly devoted to God.

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.

I always try to go the extra mile at work, but my boss always finds me and brings me back.

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

The poor cows froze neglected in a blizzard They dug them up and ate their gizzards.