December 2011
14 posts
“I secretly hate Scrabble, for the simple reason that anyone hates Scrabble,...”
– David Samuels, Underachievers Please Try Harder (via fernandofrench)
“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.” Thomas Aquinas
I wonder, is this really true? I am conflicted with this issue. Whenever I learn some spectacular truth about this life and the Lord, I am always tempted to almost immediately tell other people. In doing this, I forget to dwell on it myself. And I forget to...
George Macdonald
“There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection. One of the latter sort comes at length to know at once whether a thing is true the moment it comes before him; one of the former class grows more and more afraid of being taken in, so afraid of it that he takes himself in...
”We are half-hearted creatures,
fooling about with drink and sex and
ambition when infinite joy is offered us,
like an ignorant child who wants to go on
making mud pies in a slum because he
cannot imagine what is meant by the offer
of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily
pleased”
C.S. Lewis from The Weight of Glory
“We are all pencils in the hand of God writing love letters to the world”
– Mother Teresa
Grace like a Placenta- lydia benitez is my hero. →
lydiabenitez:
Today, I’m writing about the placenta.
Your immune system is created to attack any foreign organism. No matter how similar it may be—it knows an outcast when it sees one, and it has no mercy. This is why organ transplants have proven to be so difficult. How then is it that a mother can grow…