20140108 The more guilty we are, the less guilty we feel." Caryll Houselander, Guilt, 1951, 2.
20140107 After a certain point the task is not to get better but to not get worse.
If you want appreciation, pray for the dead.
20140106 Pray for what makes you pray.
20140105 I hope the good I do to my dog I do to my God.
20130104
Whenever you want to save money, do something that doesn’t.
I don’t want to make you happy. I want you do be happy.
“All of Tocqueville’s books were read and respected by educated and influential people, in England and on the Continent. But, in the estimation of one historian, ‘Their practical effects in their own times were almost nil.'” Chilton Williamson, Jr., After Tocqueville, 2013, 35. A yet an erroneous spreadsheet, seen by only a few had enormous practical effects.
I don’t suppose God has to budget miracles.
20140102 Be ready to go when he says come.
20131229 Do always the good that you fell occasionally.
20130102 Be ready to go when he says come.
20131226 Since I can’t count on myself, why should I count on another? [Much too pessimistic.]
20131212 Perhaps I should have an Our Lady of Guadalupe blotter to press on my first use of Noodler’s Heart of Darkness ink.
20131207 Do God’s will whatever the reason.
20131206 I believe in experience, including others' experience. I can know what I haven’t experienced, by faith [and from others].
20131205
Adam & Eve were not Jews. Civilization is not necessary for salvation. One can be a great ______ without entering the kingdom of heaven.
J[esus] enjoyed the fruits – the bread and wine, the clothing, the language of civilization – without trying to make them better [maybe His wine was better]. Was he a carpenter or just the son of a carpenter? He fed thousands without teaching people how to fish. He never taught wisdom, only truth. Or if not truth, then folly.
What about talents not to be buried? Let not the world judge. Was God put out when S[etsuko] H[ara] retired in 1963? What [public work] did Mary do? Hoc est opus Dei ut credatis in eum quem misit ille.
Mary Murphy, “Eating Wild”