Tally Marx Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 "It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At the bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less Than I reviled myself For entertaining plated wares Upon my slver shelf." ~Emily Dickinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 "A moral philosophy. . . characteristically presupposes a sociology. For every moral philosophy offers explicitly or implicitly at least a partial conceptual analysis of the relationship of an agent to his or her reasons, motives, intentions and actions, and in so doing generally presupposes some claim that these concepts are embodied or at least can be in the real social world. Even Kant, who sometimes seems to restrict moral agency to the inner realm of the noumenal, implies otherwise in his writings on law, history and politics. Thus it would generally be a decisive refutation of a moral philosophy to show that moral agency on its own account of the matter could never be socially embodied; and it also follows that we have not yet fully understood the claims of any moral philosophy until we have spelled out what its social embodiment would be." - Alasdair MacIntyre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithLuin Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Yes, St. Francis did not say the most popular/common things attributed to him. It's kinda crazy, considering that (for a man of his time) we have a good deal of primary sources on him! [url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/wosf/index.htm]This website[/url] offers what we know he did write He did [i]not[/i] write 'Make me an instrument of your peace' or the quote about preaching the gospel always but use words if necessary. Both came out of the Franciscan tradition, but they aren't his. He did, however, write this prayer: "Most high, glorious God, cast your light into the darkness of my heart. Grant me right faith, firm hope, perfect charity and profound humility, with wisdom and perception, O Lord, so that I may do what is truly your holy will. Amen." A quotation I like: "I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." ~ Faramir, [i]The Lord of the Rings[/i] by J.R.R. Tolkien And there are many, many more from that book! [quote]"It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. ... How shall a man judge what to do in such times?" [asked Eomer] "As he ever has judged," said Aragorn. "Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house."[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Who is going to save our Church? Not our Bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops like bishops, and your religious act like religious. - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tally Marx Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 "That love is all there is, is all we know of love." ~ Emily Dickenson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 "One Hail Mary is like a 2x4"---vee8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I wanted to bump this thread "Texas is like the prostrate gland of America." DS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil'Monster Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 [quote name='vee8' timestamp='1309151027' post='2259007'] I wanted to bump this thread [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif[/img] [/quote] ur face is a bump, jk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 "edited to make more uncharitable." -max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylvanna Imbris Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 "The men of the East may spell the stars And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark. The men of the East may search the scrolls, For sure fates and fame, But the men that drink the blood of God Go singing to their shame." ... "I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. Night shall be thrice night over you, And heaven an iron cope. Do you have joy without a cause, Yea, faith without a hope?" [i]G. K. Chesterton (The scene is Our Lady speaking to Alfred in [/i]The Ballad of the White Horse[i])[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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