Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets
of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.
Father Eugene Boylan, O.C.R.
"One of the reasons why men are so prone to praise one another, to overestimate their own value and abilities, to resent anything that tends to lower them in their own eyes or in the eyes of others, is that they see no hope for happiness outside themselves. That is why they are often so hyper-sensitive, so resentful when they are criticized, so upset by anyone who contradicts them, so insistent on getting their own way, so desirous of being well known, so anxious to be praised, so determined to control their surroundings. They secure themselves like a shipwrecked man holding on to a straw. And life goes on, and they move further and further away from happiness..."
(From This Tremendous Lover)
St.
John Chrysostom
“What do you want us to
do? Go up into the mountains and become monks? What you are saying makes me
want to cry. You think that modesty and chastity are just for monks? No. Christ
laid down common laws for all of us. And so, when He said: ‘everyone who looks
at a woman lustfully’ (Matthew 5:28), He was not speaking to a monk, but to the
man in the street…I do not forbid you to marry, nor do I forbid you to enjoy
life. I only ask that you do this with temperance, not with impurity; not with countless
ins. I do not lay it down as a law that you go into the mountains and out into
the deserts. I want you to be good, modest and chaste even though you are in
the middle of the world.”
(From Homilies on St. Matthew’s Gospel)
Father
Francis Wendell, O.P.
"We live in a secularist society.
Stated that bluntly it means very little. Actually the implications are
tremendous. St. Dominic, were he introduced to our society, would be amazed and
aghast at the things that are commonplace today. God was a reality in the lives
of the people of his age; for us God had become either a myth or has been
relegated to the position of a peculiar old relative who is kept more or less
hidden away upstairs."
(From Spiritual Powerhouse)
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