“Since God is the fountain of all blessedness, we cannot be truly happy in this life until he becomes our God. We are only as happy or miserable as the god we serve. Nothing can offer more happiness than what it rightly possesses in itself.”
@JayCCalhoun Also, if you are going to obscure your image while taking shots at others who have made theirs visible… well, that’s about as cowardly a decision as I can imagine.
@JayCCalhoun It is not a positive message.
It is the equivalent of “the beatings will continue until morale improves.”
Or a bully saying, “I’m being a jerk to you in order to toughen you up.”
"The main difference between Aristotelian and Thomistic magnanimity is that for Aquinas, this virtue and its operation are possible only through God’s gift of grace—a gift for which we are dependent on a God who is greater and more powerful than we are."
"Aristotle’s magnanimous person acknowledges that he
depends on others to become virtuous and to exercise virtue, but he is appropriately independent of their opinions and their standards of great-ness in assessing his own worth."
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