Saints & Scholars

“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“If a perfectly moral man entered our world, he would be humiliated, tortured, and at last, after suffering every evil, he would be crucified.”

— Plato

“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.”

—Proverbs 18:15

“O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth!”

— John Knox

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Lord, help me write your word on my heart today.

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“Saint Lorenzo Ruiz was the first Filipino Catholic saint and became the Philippines’ protomartyr (first martyr) after his execution in 1637 in Japan during a period of Christian persecution by the Tokugawa Shogunate. Born around 1600 in

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Filipino head coverings pt. 2

Artists: Fernando Amorsolo

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An excerpt from my prayer journal this morning.
Close the doors of distraction which is a spiritual leak that the enemy seeks to exploit against you, and rededicate your attention and affections towards Christ. It’s a reminder to myself to pur

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Nighttime Prayers of the Church
by Gregory of Nazianzus

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I have kept my feet from every evil path to follow your word
How sweet your word is to my taste - sweeter than honey in my mouth

I am yours, save me
For I have studied your precepts.

psalms 119 🌖

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“Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.”

- G. K. Chesterton

“Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.”

— John Calvin

“Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced (ridiculous as the expression may seem) more true than the truth itself.”

—Saint Irenaeus of Lyon