What we choose to fight is so tiny… When we win it’s with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. — Rainer Maria Rilke, from the poem “The Watching Man”
What we choose to fight is so tiny… When we win it’s with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. — Rainer Maria Rilke, from the poem “The Watching Man”
Jesus knew human nature as we cannot know it. He knew its baseness, as we even do not know it; he knew its frailty, its inconsistency. Yet, knowing it, he dared to say to us: “Follow me.” How well he thought of us, how nobly he judged us who said to us, “Come where I […]