The magnificence of ordinary things
In the days before professional sports became decadent with players paid the prodigal salaries of tycoons, the average fan did not have to take out a mortgage to take his family to a game.
In the days before professional sports became decadent with players paid the prodigal salaries of tycoons, the average fan did not have to take out a mortgage to take his family to a game.
The restoration of Grand Central Terminal took several laborious years.
In his writings while in prison, Bonhoeffer once remarked that even the Christian must live today quasi Deus non daretur — as if there were no God.
Moral obligation is not man's prison, from which he must liberate himself in order finally to be able to do what he wants.
The Resurrection is not about spring flowers and butterflies.
The culture of rushing, either of getting a rush, or of zipping frantically around — perhaps the two are interconnected — means a lot more Martha and a lot less Mary in life.
Some months after my son-in-law, Rob Susil, died, a longtime friend asked me, in a gentle but point-blank way, "Are you still fighting God?"