Oct 30, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
So much of what it is to be human is at stake in how we eat. No wonder we need several arts and virtues really to do it well. Thomas Aquinas has much to say about eating. A starting point is how the art of medicine, rightly understood and practiced, should have a key...
Sep 11, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
There is nothing like parenting, or teaching, or any real formation of the young to help us to see and focus on what really matters. If we have come to the insight that living well—or living virtuously—is at the center of the human vocation, then the enormity of a...
Mar 2, 2022 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“To any ladies who wish to get married, I suggest: Marry a man who can fast.” a Benedictine This is an interesting requirement in looking for a spouse. Immediately we might reflect that surely anyone can fast. But then again, there is fasting, and there is fasting....
Jan 19, 2022 | Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“Moral good is a practical stimulus: it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice…” Plutarch Experience shows the tremendous power of simply seeing moral good enacted. This, in part, is why they say you never know all the effects of your good action....
Mar 25, 2020 | Man of the Household, Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“Courage: in all circumstances the ability to judge rightly about the nature and extent of dangers.” “For instance, when Homer makes Odysseus strike himself on the chest, and ‘call his heart to order,’ saying: ‘Prudence my heart, you have put up with fouler than...
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