Love Is the Way
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is lovable. To think only on these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather…
Category: Catholicism
Today’s One-Liner (#277)
We are to keep our eyes on Him (and on our neighbors’ needs) rather than on ourselves. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas
Simplify!
Simplify your life by throwing out all the things you have that you don’t need, all that’s not virtuous, useful, or pleasant. Don’t do anything for any other reason, e.g., because “everybody’s doing it” or…
Today’s One-Liner (#276)
A good man is not one who has a good intellect but one who has a good will. ––Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #240
Today’s One-Liner (#275)
Though meditation you can learn to stand back from the heat of mental processes that are raging out of control. –Sri Eknath Easwaran, Seeing with the Eyes of Love: Reflections on a Classic of Christian…
Gradual
A lost-looking pedestrian with a violin case asked a New York City policeman: “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” the answer was: “Practice, man, practice.” There’s no easier way. You learn to do it…
Today’s One-Liner (#272)
Yet who can tell how many times each day our curiosity is tempted by the most trivial and insignificant matters? –Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin
Liturgical Impermanence
Much of the excitement of guitar Masses, living-room Masses, sport-shirted celebrants, readings from Eldridge Cleaver, coffee-and-donut Eucharists, and post-communion dancing has depended on the dramatic clash of the old and new, the unexpectedness of it…
The Depraved Intellect
Dante delineated a hierarchy of sins that, as a Thomist, he based on human reason. Thus the worst sins were lying, deceit, and treachery—the use of the intellect to subvert the truth rather than to…
Today’s One-Liner (#270)
I became and remain convinced that life has never been more thrillingly worth living than it was when Francis, Thomas, Innocent III, and Dante stalked this earth. —Ross J. S. Hoffman, in The Road to…