Everyday life Quote by Josef Pieper

““It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.””

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Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

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What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without…

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Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state…

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To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

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