Morning Briefings

The organizations behind the SAT and ACT college-entrance exams said Tuesday they are imposing stricter security measures for test-takers nationwide in response to a cheating scandal that erupted in New York.

– Will James, The Wall Street Journal
College Tests Get New ID Standards

There are very few people who realize what God would make of them if they abandoned themselves into his hands, and let themselves be formed by his grace.

– Saint Ignatius
as quoted in Sacred Space

Advising panicky white-collar criminals on what life is like behind bars is a bull-market business, what with all the arrests on Wall Street for insider trading. As America’s lockups have become more crowded, so has the prison-prep industry.

– Michael Rothfeld, The Wall Street Journal
School for Scoundrels: Doing Time in Prison Prep School

Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important?

– Hermann Hesse
Journey to the East

Your power to choose the direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future and to powerfully influence the rest of creation. It is the one gift that enables us to elevate our life to higher and higher levels.

– Steven R. Covey
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Adult sibling rivalry. Experts say it remains one of the most harmful and least addressed issues in a family. We know it when we see it. Often, we deeply regret it. But we have no idea what to do about it.

– Elizabeth Bernstein, The Wall Street Journal
Sibling Rivalry Grows Up

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

– Luke 12:25

It is important to keep a still place in the ‘marketplace.’ This still place is where God can dwell and speak to us. It is also the place from which we can speak in a healing way to all the people we meet in our busy days. Without that still place we start spinning.

– Henri J.M. Nouwen regarding Psalm 46:10
Bread for the Journey

If we had no winter, spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

– Anne Bradstreet
Meditations Divine and Moral (1655)

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

– Romans 15:4