Author: David Schwarm
-
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin, Dion Graham (Narrator)
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Holy COW! How great of a writer was Baldwin? Short stories that simply kill. And do not even really prepare you for the final story, which is just too damn much. This is a huge book by a great writer that…
-
Holy Scripture
All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful garden of Scripture. It is fragrant, sweet, and blooming with various sounds of spiritual and divinely inspired birds. They sing all around our ears, capture our hearts, comfort the mourners, pacify…
-
Prayer
Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. So if you pray, fast’ if you fast, show mercy; if you want your petition to be heard, hear the petition of others. If you do not close your ear to others, you open God’s ear to yourself. — St Peter Chrysologus
-
Our Crosses in Life
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. – St Rose of Lima
-
Books
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more. — Bl Fulton Sheen
-
Failure
Every fall, even if it be very grave and repeated, serves us always and only as a little step towards a higher perfection. — St Maximilian Kolbe
-
Suffering
The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance in the next; the more we sorrow in the present, the greater will be our joy in the future. — St Isidore
David Given Schwarm 