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O.P. Fr. Gregory Pine’s Followers (19)
O.P. Fr. Gregory Pine
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
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“A lot of people seem to think that the point of the moral life is continence, as if we were made for a lifetime’s toil of scales, arpeggios, and etudes. In fact, the point of the moral life is virtue. We are made for concert performance. We are made to fire on all cylinders and to do so as if effortlessly. Virtue is not a matter of mere moral might; it actually changes us in our inmost being. It makes us good and fit for good deeds.”
― Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
― Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
“I was so used to thinking about happiness as deferred satisfaction that I had neglected to think about the purpose and import of what happens now. I had failed to engage with the question of happiness as a present reality and, in the process, had just gotten really busy.”
― Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
― Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
“While our infinite desire may nag us with the feeling of unfulfillment, it doesn’t force us to seek lower goods and less meaningful pursuits. It is at the root of all our meaningful pursuits — even the highest among them — constantly spurring us on in search of what gives genuine peace and withholding satisfaction until we have found it.”
― Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
― Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
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