Friday, June 24, 2011

Weil on the hammer-and-nail of affliction

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"When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of i...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Carey on "Alexis de Tocqueville's prescient Democracy in America"

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"I dedicate this account of our lives and travels to Olivier-Jean-Baptiste de Clarel de Garmont in pretty much the same spirit that...

Grumpy old men

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"It is a rare thing to come across a man of sixty, living on the threshold of a great change, who had already come to regard a unique c...

"steeped too long in too few books"

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"We cannot help noticing the extent to which the 'Divine eloquence' of God is the eloquence of a Late Roman writer.  For no one...

St. Thomas Aquinas on those "who never take the sacrament, and yet receive its effect on account of the devotion they have to [it], which [sacrament] they have in wish or desire."

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"Fault in the recipient can be an obstacle to the effect of the sacrament, for instance, if he receives the sacrament for outward show ...

"even when it didn't raise its practice to its preaching, it never lowered its preaching to its practice."

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"No matter how morally bad the Church had gotten in the Renaissance, it never taught heresy. I was impressed with its very hypocrisy: e...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Through him you give us all these gifts. You fill them with life and goodness, you bless them and make them holy.

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Per quem haec ómnia, Dómine, semper bona creas, sanctíficas, vivíficas, benedícis, et praestas nobis. Through him you give us all these gi...