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Daily negligence deadens the soul. Gregory of Sinai

What men want to be is often even more important than what they 'are.' John Lukacs If only more of us, including this writer, truly wanted to be saints.

California "is a renowned haven for faddists, individualists and nuts of every kind. . . There's always some screwball out here who's got some new cult or ism working and a band of happy unrealistic acolytes around him who are now convinced that they've discovered

Exalt leisure and contemplation over money-making and success. s/ G.K. Chesterton, The Agrarians, Richard Weaver, Legions of Monks, The Inklings, Russell Kirk, Josef Pieper, Christopher Dawson, and The Wise Men.

I read lots of books. I begin many more. Appears I'm not alone. The brilliant essayist and voracious reader Joseph Epstein once wrote about a book he bought: "It begins brilliantly. Another bookmark in yet another book; another book atop yet another pile of books–one of

"The characteristic of lost souls is their rejection of everything that is not simply themselves." C.S. Lewis

"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention." Simone Weil

"Is this America or Nazi Germany?" the man exclaimed. "You're hardly showing proper respect to the Director of the Poultry Protection Agency, sir," the muscular young man in a wife-beater said menacingly, his fists clinched. "I'm only saying that I oughtta

Power mowers, power blowers, power edgers. Chain saws and weed whippers. Pervasive, pushing, penetrating noise. "Silence is not just the absence of noise any more than peace is the absence of war. It is rather a positive and difficult accomplishment, a state of justice in the soul in which

"Many of us feel remorse for our sins, yet we gladly accept their causes." "Blessed is the monk who looks with great joy on everyone's salvation and progress as if they were his own." Mark the Ascetic "There is scarcely any other virtue