Learning the Virtues Quotes

“Asceticism means that a man resolves to live as a man.”
― Romano Guardini, Learning the Virtues: That Lead You to God

“But how does God speak within us? And how does He enable us to understand His word and to answer it with ours. His voice and our hearing and answering we call “conscience.” This is a wonderful thing. Constantly, we are touched by the call which comes to us from the good, the right, that which is worthy of being and should be. This good is all-inclusive and yet quite simple. It constantly urges us, “Do me. Realize me. Carry me into the world so that the kingdom of the good may come into being.” And let us assume that a voice within us, our conscience, replies, “Yes, I will, but how shall I do this?” And thereupon follows a silence, for the good is as unlimited in content as it is simple in form, and so it cannot simply be “done.”
― Romano Guardini, Learning the Virtues: That Lead You to God

“Another step is the acceptance of our destiny. Destiny is not accident. It possesses a logical consistency which is determined externally by the connection of events but also internally by the nature and character of the person involved.”
― Romano Guardini, Learning the Virtues: That Lead You to God