Quotes
The Main Purpose of Home Education
As I ponder another year of home education, I am revisiting Fr. Hardon’s advice: “He has chosen us; we have not first chosen Him. But we must respond by making our society something beautiful for God—something very beautiful. For this we must give all—our utmost. We must cling to Jesus, grasp Him, have a grip…
Read MoreA Quote to Live By
“Life is to live in such a way that we are not afraid to die.” ~ St. Teresa of Avila ~ Taken from the parish bulletin.
Read MoreSuffering and Love
On Sunday, our pastor gave an excellent sermon on suffering. He drove his sermon home with a final nail in the bulletin by including a quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen on suffering and love. The lesson of the Crucifix is that pain is never to be isolated or separated from love. The Crucifix does not…
Read MoreObedience
“Obedience does not mean the execution of orders that are given by a drill sergeant. It springs, rather, from the love of an order, and love of Him who gave it. The merit of obedience is less in the act than in the love; the submission, the devotion, and the service that obedience implies are…
Read MoreOn the Education of Children
A friend and I were speaking with each other at a park yesterday and I shared that our pastor had included a wonderful quote in our bulletin recently (he always does, but this one really spoke to me and it is from one of my favorite saints). It is so good in fact that I…
Read MoreChesterton on “Keeping Christ in Christmas”
“You cannot chip away the statue of a mother from all round that of a newborn child. You cannot suspend the new-born child in mid-air; indeed you cannot really have a statue of a newborn child at all. Similarly, you cannot suspend the idea of a newborn child in the void or think of him…
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Eugenics
from What is Eugenics? People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV, p. 297 ~
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Eugenics
from What is Eugenics? People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV, p. 297 ~
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Christian Feasts
from The Story of the Vow It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured…
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Christian Feasts
from The Story of the Vow It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured…
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Family and Education
from The Story of the Family The most vital function [the family] performs, perhaps the most vital function that anything can perform, is that of education; but its type of early education is far too essential to be mistaken for instruction. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV p. 257 ~
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Family and Education
from The Story of the Family The most vital function [the family] performs, perhaps the most vital function that anything can perform, is that of education; but its type of early education is far too essential to be mistaken for instruction. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV p. 257 ~
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