David Given Schwarm

The world blesses not the meek but the vindictive; it praises not the one who turns the other cheek but the one who renders evil for evil; it exalts not the humble but the aggressive. Ideological forces have carried that spirit of violence, class struggle, and clenched fists to an extreme that the world before…

(Repose) reminds us that all actions get their worth from God: “Worship” means “admitting worth.” To worship is to restore to your workaday life its true worth by setting it in its fundamental relationship to God, Who is its end and ours.

Many people make the great mistake of aiming directly at pleasure; they forget that pleasure comes only from the fulfillment of a duty or obedience to a law–for man is made to obey the laws of his nature as inescapably as he must obey the laws of gravity. A boy enjoys eating ice cream because…

Every earthly ideal is lost by being possessed. The more material you’re ideal, the greater the disappointment; the more spiritual it is, the less the disillusionment.