Failure
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb…people who fail do not seem to write memoirs…
Sin
How Dante Can Save Your Life by Rod Dreher Sin is not the breaking of moral rules, but a failure of love. We love the wrong things, or we love the right things in the wrong way.
The Axiom
The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers …thus confirming the axiom that education is easier than reeducation.” (Location 933)
Honor & Dignity
It’s a motivating power – to adhere to tradition and Tradition; to stay with the mission; to not sway with the times; to not yield to fear, threat, intimidation, and tyrants; to combat betrayal; to be true to oneself and more importantly to God.
Between Time – West & East
The Story of Christianity by David Bentley Hart The Roman empire of the West came to an end in the fifth century; but the Roman empire – as a continuous legal, cultural and political institution – persisted in the East for another millennium, and its capital, the ‘New Rome’ of Constantinople, was the seat of Roman…
Had God Preserved the Bethlehem Infants, They Could Have Crucified Him
Had God Preserved the Bethlehem Infants, They Could Have Crucified Him The Lord sometimes arranges things so that when a person appeals to someone with a request, in the end he receives something completely different, but much more important. That happened to me: now I don’t even remember why I called one of the most…
Passivity
“There’s a false sense of security in passivity. You think that you can’t get into too much trouble—but really, every passive decision leads to a slow but steady loss of chips.” Source.
On Children
When you have a child you realize you’re “in it for the long haul.” And no matter how much the parent wants to “define the child,” it’s the child who brings out the definition of the parents.
The Holy Myrrhbearing Women
Models of Fidelity to Truth Today the Holy Orthodox Church, as you know, glorifies the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, for which reason this Sunday is called the “Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women.” Yesterday [at the vigil service] we already spoke of how the Myrrh-Bearing Women were, in essence, the first heralds of Christ’s Resurrection and, in…