The Intellectual Life
November 24, 2019
A Young Scholar, Jean-Honoré Fragonard
“EVERY AGE is not as good as every other, but all ages are Christian ages, and there is one which for us, and in practice, surpasses them all: our own. In view of it, are our inborn resources, our graces of to-day and to-morrow, and consequently the efforts that we must make in order to correspond with them.
“Let us not be like those people who always seem to be pallbearers at the funeral of the past. Let us utilize, by living, the qualities of the dead. Truth is ever new. Like the grass of morning moist with glistening dew, all the old virtues are waiting to spring up afresh. God does not grow old. We must help our God to renew, not the buried past and the chronicles of a vanished world, but the eternal face of the earth.”
—- A.D. Sertillanges, O.P., The Intellectual Life
