Aristotelian Thomist

Deus convertit omnia ad amorem sui ipsius

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, and the world will continue without you.”

[Litterae Christianae @litteraechristi]

Integram meditationem lege apud: https://t.co/7UdPipJsnf

[Litterae Christianae @litteraechristi]

Cūr tū prōnior et prōpensior es ad aliōrum scrūtanda vitia quam ad laudāndās virtūtēs eōrum? Nēmō est tam vitiīs deditus quī nūlla habeat laude digna, nēmō sīc malus ut nihil in eō inveniās quod in partem bonam accipiās. Eius virtūtēs nōn vidēs? Oculus tuus nēquam.

Sī penitus improbī, sī funditus malī, sī usque ad medullās perditī omnēs essēmus, nūllum umquam esset misericordiae spatium. Ubi nihil bonī, ubi nūlla mentis mūtandae occāsiō, ubi paenitentiae spēs nōn datur, ibi locus nōn est in quō misericors Deus resideat. Et tamen, cum Dominum nostrīs peccātīs crucī affīgimus, Ipse tum mīrandum in modum invēnit misericordiae spatium: “Eīs, Pater, benignus ignosce; quid enim faciant nesciunt”.

Sī Deus, quī occulta secrētaque nostra cognōscit, etiam minimum bonitātis residuum in nōbīs invenit ut sanguinem suum prō nōbīs effundat, cūr proximō tuō obtrectās eiusque facta mōrēsve implācābilī sermōne carpis et mordēs?

Praetereā, quid iuvat aliōrum hominum mōrēs inquīrere et pernōscere, sī tū tibi vīvis ignōtus? Hoc est quod Dominus dīcit festūcam in frāternīs oculīs cūrāre, dum trabem in tuīs neglegis.

Sit tibi illud Dominī dictum: “Este igitur misericordēs, ut etiam Pater vester est misericors”, quoniam “eādem mēnsūrā quā metiēmini, remetiētur vōbīs”.

[Matthew Minerd @TraksuitThomist]

Qualis unusquisque est, talis finis videtur ei.

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

@HazThomist @FrTotleben92742 Also Labourdette.

[Damien de Pyle @DamiendePyle]

Just finished this book.

I highly recommend it. Very good overview of the doctrine of natural law according to St Thomas and Suarez, and the obvious problems of Suarezian voluntarism.

It also has a very good synthesis of how the natural law is a participation in the eternal law in the second last chapter.

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

The mind is essentially passive or receptive in relation to the things it knows. We are meant to conform ourselves to reality rather than the other way round.

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

Res enim est mensura intellectus nostri.

Summa Theologiae I II 64, 3

“Reality is the measure of our intellect.”

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

“Without an adequate notion of grace there cannot be an adequate notion of Catholicity. For the Catholic system is not merely a means to right living…The Church with its system exists primarily for the communication of grace to the souls of men”

Edward Leen, The Holy Ghost

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

“Even in the bosom of Christian circles those who show an unflinching and whole-hearted loyalty to the teaching of the Saviour meet with an opposition which hurts more than does the opposition of the enemies of the Christian name.”

Edward Leen, The Holy Ghost

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

“The recompense of a life truly Christian is not something fundamentally different from the Christian life itself, but that very life carried to the point of its final development.”

Edward Leen, The Holy Ghost and His Work in Souls

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

In the finest moments of his Shakespeare commentaries, Samuel Johnson rises from critic to sage:

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

Bonum gratiae unius est maius quam bonum naturae totius universi.

Summa Theologiae I II 113, 9

“The goodness of grace of one person is greater than the natural good of the whole universe.”

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

τὸ δὲ ζητεῖν πανταχοῦ τὸ χρήσιμον ἥκιστα ἁρμόττει τοῖς μεγαλοψύχοις καὶ τοῖς ἐλευθερίοις.

Aristotle, Politics viii

“To be seeking what is useful all the time is not at all fitting for the great-souled and the free.”

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

Cure for Hyperactivity https://t.co/hN93yeaW4z

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

Unusquisque delectatur in eo quod amat, et accidit hoc quia quidem sunt melius vel peius dispositi secundum rationem.

“Everyone takes pleasure in what he loves, and this happens because some are better or worse disposed according to reason.”

St Thomas, Comm. in Eth. X, 6

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

@PhilCatholic That’s true, but it can be difficult to find entirely satisfactory materials produced by others and, of course, nothing can replace the vox viva.

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

@PhilCatholic It would be great to have an edition of selections of such texts with notes and commentary for schools and colleges. I know of nothing of the kind. If I had more time, I would write one myself, though far from being an expert in Patristics.

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

@PhilCatholic But he was also alert to the danger of a too emphatically pagan diet, and suggested the study of the Fathers in Latin and Greek, if possible.