A few great quotes that I ran across on Twitter last week:
"You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all." - St. Therese of Lisieux
— Taylor Marshall (@TaylorRMarshall) November 21, 2014
I would question this, if it weren't for the source. Might it be more accurate to say a person cannot be half committed to being a saint; you must be wholly committed or not committed at all? That seems a bit more accurate, but I'm not comfortable questioning the greatest saint of modern times.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. ~Albert Camus #quote
— Philosophers Quotes (@Philosophers21) November 21, 2014
Amen to this. This observation has ties to my post yesterday about bullying.
I've heard that Camus was quickly riding the intellectual wave to Catholicism when his life was cut short in that car accident. I don't know any details, but he clearly had some Catholic sensibilities.
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper. - Charles Peguy
— Philosophers Quotes (@Philosophers21) November 21, 2014
A paradoxical observation that I don't fully understand but which rings true anyway.
There is no country wherein a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions can be so happy as in the United States
— HL Mencken (@HLMenckenBot) November 22, 2014
Right on. Although American wasn't as free as it once was, it's still a place of great tolerance, which makes it a good place for people who hold views outside the mainstream (such as orthodox Catholics).
