“A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.” WritingHeartChristianLawNaturalPureSimplicityExtremesOrthodoxOrthodox ChristianPolishedTabletsPure HeartPropulsion Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.” IfsWellsDifferentRealityCoursesNaturalDifferencesInterestingProduceExtremesSuperiorsFadesInferiorsCautionBeing DifferentFade Away Book:Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business Source: Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business
“Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.” ReasonNaturalQualityTeachStudyGreaterLessonsBenefitsExtremesFavorsLimitationSubmitMuseModerationWildness Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.” KnowsMenMindFirstsTwoRunningNaturalKnowledgeIgnoranceBirthPureConsciousExtremesSelf KnowledgeBack AgainGreat MindsTwo Extremes Author:Blaise Pascal
“In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.” MenStatesMightEarthNaturalSituationPovertyEconomyEconomicEffectsProtectMassMen And WomenResourcesCurrentsCreatorExtremesTemptationNeverthelessConsumerismChasingAlliancesGenesisNatural ResourcesOverconsumptionProlonging Author:Pope Benedict XVI