“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.” MenWorldShouldHeartMaySoulBodyChristianSpiritualFormSpiritPassionEvilGivenNaturalMoralGraceDivineHe ManPrayingIntegrityPureFilledContemplationOrthodoxProvokingSplendidTheologicalCfsPure HeartEvil Thoughts Author:Maximus the Confessor
“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.” MenArtSoundTalentJudgmentAbuseDepartmentPossessedInferiorsSplendidNeglectedAdmonitionSound Judgment Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.” ThinkingMenHas BeensEndsMen And WomenGreat MenSymptomsVansSplendidVirginiaGrimBipolarWoolfPlathSchumann Author:Stephen Fry
“The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.” MenGeniusDoctrineCreedsSplendid Book:Endymion Source: Endymion