The Highest Human Goal

The goal, the highest good, of the human creature is that the knowledge of God and prayer to God converge.

Making a Life

Making a life is more significant than making a living.

Our Throw-Away Society

In this society we save whales, we save timber wolves and bald eagles and Coke bottles. Yet, everyone wanted me to throw away my baby.

Life Without Sacrifices

A life without sacrifices is abomination.

Annie Dillard

More than Reaching Goals

It is not a matter primarily of whether or not we reach our particular goals. Life is more than just reaching our goals. As individuals and as a group ...

Only Humans Can Be Martyrs

Some ants build; some ants sow and later reap the crop; and some apes fight and have wars although they are not as cruel as people are. But nothing in ...

All For God

The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman, become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly ...

What Are Human Beings Made For?

Take a fish as an obvious example. God created fish to live and thrive in water, whether salt or fresh. Gills are adapted to absorb oxygen from water, ...

God's Will, Our Purpose

Thank God for "purpose" in life. So many contributive purposes come into existence when one works the will of God that there is no excuse for ...

The Longest Prayer

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but, as I live longer, and see more of life, I believe there is no such thing as getting through ...