Jun 17, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
This was published yesterday in The Institute of Family Studies Blog, part of their Father’s Day series: In reflecting on Father’s Day this year, I want to address the issue of a father’s role in the home. This issue is particularly difficult to discuss today,...
Jun 10, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
In Aristotle and Aquinas’s mind everything comes down to leisure—that is, if we understand the term as they do. So I never tire of trying to understand it, and of revisiting key statements about it. One of my favorite lines gives a great angle into one of the foremost...
Jun 3, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
There is something about morning. I was struck that in Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on the gospel he associates morning with “the glory of the resurrection” and quotes Psalm 30:5, “Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Yet I ask myself: does...
May 20, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is rightly well known for its remarkable insights. I am often inspired by its maxims, such as “to be free of passion but yet full of love,” even while I think this and other maxims miss a key truth. Painting with a broad stroke about...
May 13, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
May is graduation time. So for many of us, it is a time for goodbyes. It is also a good time to reflect on the importance and even the gift of goodbyes, for all of us. We understandably dread goodbyes, especially with those we love most. Moments of parting can be...
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