I will be grateful throughout my days to Josef Pieper for opening the door to St. Thomas Aquinas for me. Before reading his introduction to Aquinas (which I highly recommend), the Angelic Doctor seemed so dry and impenetrable. Chesterton made me admire St. Thomas, but I still was unable to read him.
Lately I have run to St. Thomas as a thirsty man to a well. In our world of excess, deficiency, and overall insanity, St. Thomas provides the cool and refreshing voice of sanity, balance, and reason. In any distress of my mind, I can go to the Summa and not only be consoled, but ready and moved to action.
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