Today’s One-Liner (#268)
To make a man a saint, grace is certainly needed, and anyone who doubts this does not know what a saint, or a man, really is. –Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer, #869
To make a man a saint, grace is certainly needed, and anyone who doubts this does not know what a saint, or a man, really is. –Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer, #869
“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
So is all said at once. Virtue is the link of all perfections, the center of all the felicities. She makes a person prudent, discreet, sagacious, cautious, wise, courageous, thoughtful, trustworthy, happy, honored, truthful, and…