Try to enter the narrow way...

Abba Poemen said: 'Teach your heart to follow what your tongue is saying to others.' He also said, 'Men try to appear excellent in preaching but they are less excellent in practising what they preach.'
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Here's a thought....



Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.
Posted by Terry Nelson at 12:01 AM

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  4. My first association with this quote is St. John of the Cross. But it makes sense that it originated with Aquinas.

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  5. It is actually St. John - he quotes it like this: 'as the philosopher says...' But it is a general principle and very Thomist.

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  6. Yes, I didn't mean it is an actual quote from Aquinas, but that it is Thomistic principle.

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  7. now i know why i can't play sports.

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