Jan 28, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
The great Greek maxim “Know thyself” surely has two distinct but related aspects. Both are very challenging and call for intentional, regular reflection. The first is to know what it is to be human; the second is to know myself as an individual. For the first the key...
Sep 3, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Socrates’s worldview never ceases to amaze me. As a Christian, I find the depth of his insight surprising, but more to the point, inspiring. If without divine revelation he discovered and lived out such convictions, how much more should I. There are several notable...
Nov 20, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
Joy might seem an arbitrary thing in its coming and going. That joy is hard to figure out—both what it is and where it comes from—is no surprise, given the depths of the human heart. A question that often roils in my mind is whether I can simply choose to be joyful. I...
Oct 23, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
It is remarkable how many words we use—often even important ones—without a clear notion of what they mean. Glory has been one of those words for me. Then one day I read a definition in Thomas Aquinas that fairly stopped me in my tracks. “The word glory properly...
Jun 12, 2019 | Wednesday Quotes
“Peace is the tranquility of order.” St. Augustine, The City of God There are few words that exercise such a power over our hearts, and our imagination. A few years ago I was giving a lecture at a division-one university, introducing students to some basic points in...
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