The World's Easiest Trivia Quiz

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?

2) Which country makes Panama hats?

3) From which animal do we get catgut?

4) In which month do Russians celebrate ...

Glorified Julius Caesar Remembered His Humanity

When Julius Caesar returned to Rome after many years of fighting its battles abroad, he planned great festivities and triumphal processions to celebrate ...

Meryl Streep on Hollywood's Conceit

"It's sort of exhausting, this self-congratulatory atmosphere in which the movie community lives. It's unbearable. We're not that important ...

Duty Should Not Bring Conceit

To do one's duty will make anyone conceited who only does it sometimes. Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their ...

Figuring Out Providence

I get a little weary of these dear souls who have all the dealing and doing of Providence catalogued and correlated and figured out and can give you glib ...

Playing with Dynamite

Power is a dangerous thing to handle, even in religion.

On Holy Ground

I am often more likely to sense God's presence while engaging in a challenging conversation with a supposed non-believer than while sitting in a "required" ...

Perfectionism Gone Awry

If practiced to perfection, any virtue can become a vice. Prudence creates niggardliness; honesty, cruelty; self-respect, vainglory; knowledge, condescension; ...

Beware Ambition

They that soar too high often fall hard; which makes a low and level dwelling preferrable. The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious ...

Downward Mobility

Everything in me wants to move upward. Downward mobility with Jesus goes radically against my inclinations, against the advice of the world surrounding ...