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Josef Pieper has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
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Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
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To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
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Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of…
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The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the…
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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything…
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If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks…
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Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we…
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Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
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The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The…
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The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon…
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If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative…
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We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we…
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Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for…
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Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.
— Josef Pieper
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In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English…
— Thomas Merton
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
— J C Ryle
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Religious teaching in the past has dealt mainly with preparing people for the next world. This is of course of the utmost…
— Henry Thomas Hamblin
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The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe
— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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