Two Kinds of People
Go back to Socrates: “Know thyself.” For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the…
Tag: Peter Kreeft
Choices Make Habits
St. Thomas, as usual, is the apostle of common sense. Virtue, like reason and language, is in us by nature potentially—we are designed for it—but since the actualization of this potentiality depends on our free…
Today’s One-Liner (#292)
The four cardinal natural virtues are fertilizer for the spiritual soil in which the three theological virtues are to grow. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas, 113
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…
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…
Look More Deeply
Therefore when we speak to a wicked man, we should speak to the good man inside him that is suppressed, the man who is being held prisoner. He is there. He needs someone to acknowledge…
Today’s One-Liner (#269)
I am a happy, old, white, Gentile, American, heterosexual, conservative, religious, Christian, Catholic, Evangelical, traditional, dogma-believing, hierarchical, authoritative, absolutistic, moralistic, repentant sinner. –Peter Kfreeft, From Calvinist to Catholic
The Hourly Battle
With every vice, virtue becomes more difficult, but still possible. With every virtue, additional virtue becomes less difficult, but vice is always still possible. Life is spiritual warfare, and both sides are very much alive….
Change Is Possible
Therefore whenever you see evil, look for the good behind it, the good that it is perverting. When you see a parasite, look for its host. When God saw the hate-filled persecutor of Christians, Saul…