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Art and God
An artist who believes in God who has this awareness that there exists some superior force, such a person behaves himself naturally like God's apprentice. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Knowing my Sin and Repentance
You can live as if you have never sinned being sure of your goodness, but then bang!...something will happen in your life and you will begin to think...Oh my God!...I'm to blame before this man, before that one. How on earth have I lived without knowing...
Mary Our Hope
Mary is truly our hope because she fully lives the beatitude of her life and because the last act of her temporal life gave fullness to her love and thus gave her eternal happiness. Even if a new grace was needed to enable her to enter into the beatific...
Art and Interiority
You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked other before this…I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you-no one. There is...
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Words and Space
Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in...
Christ's Light and the Intellect
Witnessing to Christ in one's personal life is to allow Christ to rank ahead; it is to let faith, hope, and charity take precedence over our intellect, desires, likes, and dislikes. Faith must always rank first. One must not believe according to the measure...
Patience and Gentleness
A man who has the happiness to keep his patience and gentleness is, in this calm, a sensitive image of God. St. John Mary Vianney Man is created "in the image of God"; and being made in his image he carries within himself a mark of immortality. From this...
St. Anthony on Patience
Patience is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit in us. Practically, we are required to be patient in many ways: for there are some things, trials and crosses, which come to us from God; others, temptations and enticements, that come to us from our old...
