Feb 25, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
Something many struggle with—I certainly include myself—is how to find joy when one is not ‘feeling’ joyful. This is a complex question that calls for careful and nuanced consideration. Part of thinking clearly about it is recognizing that real sorrow has a...
Nov 26, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
The place of gratitude in human life is at once obvious and remarkably complex. Great pagan philosophers (such as Seneca) as well as Christian theologians (such as Thomas Aquinas) have treated it at some length. This much is clear: learning both to be grateful and to...
Nov 12, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Already Plato used bodily health as a helpful analogy for understanding health of the soul. The entire complex realm of cultivating and restoring bodily health is rife with truths applicable to spiritual health, which two healths, of course, while distinct are not...
Oct 29, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
We know that each kind of passion has an important place in human life. Contrary to the ‘Stoic’ position, passions are not simply to be squashed or set aside. But discovering and enacting the proper place of passions is anything but straightforward. Thomas Aquinas...
Apr 16, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Certain special days are more at the center of life. Some are particular to the person (e.g., wedding, death of parent, graduation); others have universal significance. For Christians, the Paschal days are most special; they are simply the center. How we live them is...
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