And who is the greatest saint?

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives most alms or is most eminent for temperance, chastity, or justice. 

It is he who is most thankful to God and who has a heart always ready to praise God. This is the perfection of all virtues.

Joy in God and thankfulness to God is the highest perfection of a divine and holy life. 

-- William Law (1686-1761), English cleric and theological writer.

 

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.  Psalm 100:4

 

Prayer Within a Festive Christmas

The Bold Pursuit

R.I.P. Robert Heron Bork

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Brilliant legal scholar Robert Bork died Wednesday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., from heart complications.
AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi

Famous Words given by Robert H. Bork

Atheism doesn't equal intellectualism:
"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes,
who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition.
They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."

Morality needed for stability of a nation
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."

Against Court changing meaning of the Constitution:
"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review;
and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left."

"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."

"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."

Slouching towards Gomorrah, click here.
Kagan says she loved "borking" of Bork, click here.