Wise Words on Wednesday: The principal act of courage
“The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them”
– St. Thomas Aquinas
Category: Quotation
Wise Words on Wednesday: Enough Silence
We have had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence!
– St. Catherine of Siena
Wise Words on Wednesday: Faith and Obedience
How can a man say he believes in Christ if he does not do what Christ commanded him to do?
– St. Cyprian of Carthage
Wise Words on Wednesday: The need for speed
There is more to life than increasing its speed
– Gandhi
Wise Words on Wednesday: Sin, not the sinner
Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them. But they suffered with them, gave them remedies as sickly members, and did all they could to heal them
– St Dorotheos of Gaza
Wise Words on Wednesday: Wanting a woman
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he ‘wants a woman.’ Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want.
“He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged by his attitude to her five minutes after fruition (one does not keep the carton after one has smoked the cigarettes).
“Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.”
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Wise Words on Wednesday: Meat
“You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage.
Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?”
– CS Lewis, Mere Christianity (Book III)