Today’s One-Liner (#245)
Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. –The Gospel according to St. Luke, 6:37.
Category: Catholicism
Two Faculties
C.S. Lewis once discussed the problem in terms I here paraphrase: During Mass I can exercise either a critical or a devotional faculty, and the two are mutually exclusive. If my critical faculty is alert,…
Today’s One-Liner (#244)
‘You must be the only person staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have been happening there these last few days.’ –The Gospel of Luke, 24:18
Today’s One-Liner (#241)
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. –Gerard Manley Hopkins
Churches
“I had hired a Bohemian as my servant while I remained in London, and being much pleased with him, I asked Dr. Johnson whether his being a Roman Catholick should prevent my taking him with…
St. Thomas Aquinas
Sheer intellectual greatness is never so attractive, never appeals so much to the imagination and to the emotions as greatness of a more practical kind. That is why Napoleon, Caesar, and Joan of Arc will…
Today’s One-Liner (#237)
Inordinate fear is included in every sin; the miser fears the loss of money, the intemperate man the loss of pleasure. –Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #302
Long Live Reason
To judge one’s own judgment: this can only be done by the reason, which reflects on its own act and knows the relation between that upon which it judges and that by which it judges….
Today’s One-Liner (#235)
We are not free unless we are good, and we are not good unless we listen to reason. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas–350+ Ways Your Mind Can Help You Become…
For the Young
St. Augustine’s famous Confessions is a book directed to the very heart of each young person. No other book is quite like it. In it, Augustine excitedly tells us about his reading of Cicero’s now…