Today’s One-Liner (#258)
Many people take pride even in their humility. ––Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #379
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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
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….
A Father Schall Reading List
1) G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy 2) C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity 3) E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed 4) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 5) Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien 6) Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You 7) Dorothy Sayers, The Whimsical Christian 8) J….