Friday, January 29, 2016

"The work of heaven alone was material; the making of a material world. The work of hell is entirely spiritual."

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     G. K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas (1933), chap. 4 ("A meditation on the Manichees").

"comme les pommiers produisent des pommes"

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"idiots utter idiocies just as plum trees produce plums —it's a normal, natural process.  The problem is that some readers take the...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Prayer is an act of the reason

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"Prayer is an act of reason directing [(rationis . . . applicantis)] the ardent desire of the will at [(ad)] Him who is not under our p...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

"What I do not hesitate to honor in you"

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"You easily understand what it is that I am ready to honor in you [(quid autem in te honorare non dubitem)].  Naturally, I do not consi...
Monday, January 18, 2016

The submission of a man of great courage

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"In the post-Tridentine [(postèrieurs)] writings of [Cardinal] Seripando one finds no further mention of double justice.  This submiss...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

"Dei, quia a Deo, nostra, quia in nobis, Christi, quia per Christum"

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Source "Una est iustitia Dei et nostra per Christum Iesum, qua iustificaur:  Dei, quia a Deo, nostra, quia in nobis, Christi, quia ...
Friday, January 15, 2016

"Whoever loves someone whom he believes good loves goodness, whether that person is what he is esteemed to be or something quite different."

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Emeth, by Pauline Baynes. C. S. Lewis, The last battle, chaps. 14-15. ". . . qui eum diligit, quem credit bonum, siue ille se ita ...