Today’s One-Liner (#254)
Sin consists in the loss of order in the soul, just as sickness consists in disorder of the body. ––Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #299
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
You Say You Want a Revolution?
My brother Evgeni Yakovlevich used to say that the decisive part in the subjugation of the intelligentsia was played not by terror and bribery (though, God knows, there was enough of both), but by the…
Today’s One-Liner (#253)
While he was eating in restaurants and walking freely through the streets of New York, and while his estranged son was growing up in the relative safety of Palestine, Bashevis’s fellow Polish Jews were facing…
The Grace of Sympathy
When I turned, I found that the young man had taken out the dog and was standing at the door looking in upon us with dry eyes, but quiet. The girl was quiet too and…
Seeking the Wise
In a touching essay, Professor Ralph McInerny recalled listening as a young man to the last lecture the French Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain gave one autumn night in 1958 at the Moreau Seminary on the…
Today’s One-Liner (#252)
Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. –The Gospel according to St. Luke, 10:3.
Memory Multitudes
During the night he went through his vast store of memories. He remembered the hundreds of people who had passed through his life. He remembered pupils and teachers, friends and enemies. He remembered books and…
Today’s One-Liner (#251)
I contain multitudes. –Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
It’s Not Easy
But the love revealed in Jesus, simple as it sounds, is terribly arduous. That is why the history of our faith so often reads like a history of our resistance to love. Give us rules….
Today’s One-Liner (#250)
“Thy will be done” is the essential prayer of the saint, “my will be done” is the essential demand of the sinner. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas