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Dear All,
Wrong! Not another "blond joke," or "redneck invention," or "the colors of nature." Something very different: inspiring thoughts of the mind from St. Thomas Aquinas. Each is worth a day of meditation.
1. In the fielf of human science, the argument from authority is weakest.
2. There is nothing that does not share in goodness and beauty. Each thing is good and beautiful by its own proper form.
3. Evil does not exist, except in a good subject.
4. In every good, the supreme good is desirable.
5. All desires presuppose love as their first root.
6. All fear springs from love. Ordered love is included in every virtue, disordered love in every vice.
7. Malice consists in emptiness.
8. Love is absolutely stronger than hate.
9. No human truly has joy unless that person lives in love.
10. The human person has a natural urge toward complete goodness.
11. Sins are as preposterous in morals as monsters in nature.
12. Every judgment of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that whoever acts against conscience always does moral evil.
13. It must be said flatly that the will that disobeys conscience as reason's dictate is always in the wrong.
14. It is against reason to burdensome to others, showing no amusement and acting as a grouch. Those without a sense of fun, who never say anything ridiculous and are cantankerous with those who do, these are vicious and are called grumpy and rude.
15. Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is a waste.
16. Two main reasons why people fall shart of justice - deference to the powerful and deference to the mob.
17. Person signifies what is noblest in the whole of nature.
If you got this far, you are a saint!!! Marcel/Brother
P.S. Found in America, Feb. 21, 2011.