Reading the Great Books from a Catholic Point of View
A book is a literary compass that has the potential to direct our thoughts and actions:
"Everything we read stimulates our mind to think, and what we think determines what we desire, and desires are the seedbed of our actions. Given this iron law of human nature--from reading to thinking, to desiring, to acting--we are shaping our destiny by the ideas we choose to have enter our minds through print." - Fr. John Hardon, S.J., The Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan
Welcome to my own personal exploration of life through reading the great books of the world.
"Every soul that uplifts itself uplifts the world." --Elisabeth Leseur
| "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina "The town was a little one, worse than a village, and it was inhabited by scarcely any but old people who died with an infrequency that was really annoying." Anton Chekhov, "Rothschild's Fiddle," from Ward No. 6 and Other Stories Labels: first line friday, russian |
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