We must learn to be silent. Dom John Main

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll

They crucified him with the criminals. Do you know what this implies? Don’t be too surprised if I tell you that this was the first Christian

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the

Thomas Merton was asked once to contribute to a book on success — specifically a statement of how he’d achieved it in his own life.

  shows up every day stays on the job all day commits to the long haul sets the stakes high, sees they’re real is patient

  Live lean. Altar ends. Mercy burns. Pleasantly surprising. Love to the point of folly. Afflictions eclipsed by glory. Write until your fingers break. Everything

  My dad died in my sleep. 2:35 AM in an upstate New York hospice; 11:35 PM in a Southern California house. A text saying to call and