Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman in the ninth discourse of The Idea of a University , in part eight: If then a University is a direct prepar...

Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman in the seventh discourse of The Idea of a University , in part two: Now this is what some great men are ver...

Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman in the sixth discourse of The Idea of a University , in part one: I say, a University, taken in its bare id...

Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman in the fifth discourse of The Idea of a University , in part one: It is a great point then to enlarge the r...

Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman in the fourth discourse of The Idea of a University , in part seven: We are not living in an age of wealth ...

Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman in the third discourse of The Idea of a University : His are the substance, and the operation, and the resu...

Wendell Berry in  Hannah Coulter : You could say that Port William has never been the same place two minutes together. But I think any way...

Hilda van Stockum in The Mitchells: Five for Victory  when Joan is contemplating the birthday requests of her dear friend who, as a European...

Pope Benedict XVI in Prayer (a review copy): His words are a precious reminder to us today, used as we are to evaluating everything with ...

Pope Benedict XVI in Prayer (a review copy): Dear brothers and sisters, in our prayer we should look more often at how, in the events of ...

Sofia Cavalletti and Patricia Coulter in The Good Shepherd and the Child: A Joyful Journey on "The Child's Prayer": These m...

From Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry: He was to learn in the hours to come that all days, all time, would be like that: hours of blas...

Kathleen Norris in The Cloister Walk : To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal ...

From chapter 5 of When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself : Yes, we got an inventory of p...

From the Introduction of When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself : North American Christi...

Alfie Kohn in Unconditional Parenting : I didn't understand that sometimes when your kids scream so loudly that the neighbors are rea...

From Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink: For hours Caddie tossed about on her bed. The upper room was hot and close, but an even hotter...

From Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers : That night when we were milking, he told me it had been a day I should remember. He sai...

In the introduction of The Good Shepherd and the Child: A Joyful Journey : Every action a parent does to or with the child, however mundan...

From Born On A Blue Day by Daniel Tammet at the end of the chapter in which he relates how he memorized 22,514 digits of pi, reciting them ...