A Catholic Thinker

Pray about it. (The Penitent Saint Peter by Jusepe de Ribera) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqSxdxIroek/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Reason and sense remove anxiety, Not villas that look out upon the sea. —Horace https://www.instagram.com/p/CqNrRTyrlgn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. —T.S. Eliot https://www.instagram.com/p/CqK-9WRL_Mo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. —Charlotte Brontë https://www.instagram.com/p/CqEgVCUrZIx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Noble fathers have noble children. —Euripides St. Joseph, pray for us. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBg5llPIsf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. —Robert F. Kennedy State Champions again. Congratulations, @pagirlsbasketball22 ! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp-I02lLNxO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

To our weak minds, to our weak hands, he entrusts his truth. . . .He made us his friends — and how do we respond? —Pope Benedict XVI https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp3nEdgLTwe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Christ lived for thirty years in silence. Then, during his public life, he withdrew to the desert to listen to and speak with his Father. The world vitally needs those who go off into the desert. Because God speaks in silence. —Cardinal Robert Sarah (El Greco’s St. Dominic in Prayer) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpwgJkpMszh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Experts can’t simply comprehend troves of data intimately. They need to intelligently discern its meaning, honestly wrestle with bias & blind spots, & earnestly explain its vexing complexity. As a result, we should beware the expert who lacks a proper humility. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpp_6IHLP9m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Though she be but little, she is fierce! —William Shakespeare Congratulations @pagirlsbasketball22 on becoming Section champs! On to State! https://www.instagram.com/p/CposkIgs6yE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly Considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day’s dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavor to its one roast with the burned souls of many generations. Knowledge, instructing the sense, refining and multiplying needs, transforms itself into skill and makes life various with a new six days’ work; comes Ignorance drunk on the seventh, with a firkin of oil and a match and an easy “Let there not be,” and the many-coloured creation is shriveled up in blackness. Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy dark as a buried Babylon. —George Eliot https://www.instagram.com/p/CpjQ94Hrjom/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Mail day! https://www.instagram.com/p/CpeANGFrF-c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. —Abraham Lincoln (attrib.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpU8oAMLiAr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle. —Russell Kirk https://www.instagram.com/p/CpR5SlUOhkf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Big interview coming up… https://www.instagram.com/p/CpRQjgur2lq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Extraordinary. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpJfpwpLXCL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Catholicism is not simply a Truth-infused rebuttal to man’s contrived & self-serving ideologies. It is a profound interior life—a sacramental encounter with the Living God. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIUKjwrMi3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=