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“The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.”

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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 desire for…

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“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to…

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“Patience is not the indiscriminate acceptance of any sort of evil: "It is not the one who does not flee from evil who is…

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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 contemplation is…

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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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The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place…

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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 evil. Thus…

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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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Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will…

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To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

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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 but to…

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