Excerpt from the Martyrology of Tallaght

If he be a cleric, let him not be wrathful. Let him not his voice be raised. Let him not swear falsely. Let him not be greedy. Let him not be treasure loving. Let him not be niggardly, lying. Let him not be fault-finding at meals. Do not slander thy fellow. Thy side half bare, …

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of …

The Heavenly Banquet

I would like to have the men of Heaven in my own house; with vats of good cheer laid out for them. I would like to have the three Marys, their fame is so great. I would like people from every corner of Heaven. I would like them to be cheerful in their drinking. I …

D.H Lawrence on liberty

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. D.H. Lawrence on liberty

Gregory of Nyssa, Fourth Homily on Ecclesiastes 336,6

I got me slaves and slave-girls. For what price, tell me? What did you find in existence worth as much as this human nature? What price did you put on rationality? How many obols did you reckon the equivalent of the likeness of God? How many staters did you get for selling the being shaped by God? God …