Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. Antony The Great “Antony said, ‘Just as fish die if they stay too long out of water, so the monks who loiter outside their prayer chambers or pass their time with men of the world lose the intensity of their inner peace. So, like a fish going toward the sea, we must hurry to reach our prayer chamber. If we delay outside, we will lose our interior watchfulness’.” (From The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers ) Father Peter Hannah, O.P. "[Pope Benedict XVI reminds us]: Truth should be spoken with charity; but charity demands that one is actually speaking truth. Charity, Benedict wrote, ‘is of fundamental importance in human relations’, but ‘without truth, charity degenerates to sentimentality…more or less interchangeable with a pool of good feelings, helpful for social cohesion but of little re...