Saturday, December 24, 2022

 December 24, 2022


Reflection

 December 24, 2022





Thought for Today


"We cannot tear out a single page of our life,  but we can throw the whole book in the fire."


George Sand 1804-1876]. 

Mauprat [1837]

Friday, December 23, 2022

 December 23,  2022


Reflection

 December 23, 2022


Thought for Today





"There lives more faith in honest doubt,

Believe me, than in half the creeds."


Alfred, Lord Tennyson



Thursday, December 22, 2022

December 22, 2022



Reflection 

 December 22, 2022


Thought for Today




                      "The great world's altar stairs,

That slope through darkness up  to God."


Alfred Lord Tennyson [1809-1892]

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

 December  21, 2022



Reflection

 December 21,  20222


Thought for Today



"I believe in the incomprehensibility of God."



Honore de Balzac [1799-1850]

Letter to Eveline Hanska [1837]



Tuesday, December 20, 2022

December 20,  2022


Reflection 

 December 20,  2022



Thought for Today


"Growth is the only evidence of life."


John Henry Cardinal Newman [1801-1890]    

Apologia pro Vitas Sua [1864]

Monday, December 19, 2022

 December 19, 2022


Reflection

 December 19, 2022


Thought for Today





"One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows."


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  [1749-1832]

Elective Affinities [1808]

Book II, 2


Sunday, December 18, 2022

 December 18,  2022


Reflection

 December 18, 2022


Thought for Today




"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."


Graham Green [1904-1991]

The Power and the Glory [1940], ch. 1