Jan 7, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
Yesterday I experienced once again the astounding Byzantine liturgy of Epiphany. Among other things, there was the special blessing of water, wherein the entire natural world is invoked as a chorus of witnesses to its Creator. This gives occasion to ask whether we...
Aug 6, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
“He has no other teachers besides the oaks and beeches.” Words we might expect about Thoreau in fact are about one of the great Christian intellectuals of the Middle Ages. Today when a focus on trees too often betokens a turning away from the Creator of trees, we can...
Mar 26, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Spring is calling. And we can answer, before it’s too late. Nature—and I mean the wonderful world bursting into bloom and the human nature throbbing within us—is always on our side. It never stops calling us to richer, fuller life. We can listen to our flesh. It has...
Mar 13, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
I am convinced that our most significant response to the challenges of our age will be in the most ordinary practices. I do not say the obvious but the ordinary. Ordinary is a great word; it means what pertains to the regular order. We live in a time when what used to...
Aug 9, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
“[T]here is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above and below, note, read. God whom you want to discover, did not make the letters with ink; he put in front of your eyes the very things that he made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”...
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