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“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at a section of time.”
Annie Dillard
“[P]arenthood is not an exact science, but a vexed privilege and a blessed trial, absolutely necessary and not altogether possible.”
Wendell Berry
“Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.”
Wendell Berry
“I do not intend to at any point divorce myself from the Catholic tradition. But neither do I intend to accept all points of that tradition blindly, and without understanding, and without making them really my own. For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really a part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.”
Thomas Merton
“We never saw eye to eye, but we were always looking at the same thing.”
William Faulkner
“Love of self until God is forgotten, or love of God until self is forgotten.”
St. Augustine
“According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
“For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
St. Paul (Philippians 1:20-21)
“There are no unsacred places. There are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
Wendell Berry
“…and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Henry David Thoreau
“…quit thinking about land-use as solely an economic problem. Examine each question in terms of what is both ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Aldo Leopold
“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a book a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.”
Annie Dillard