Comments on: Greatness http://www.dfwcatholic.org/greatness4163/.html Dallas & Ft. Worth's Best Catholic Website Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:21:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kyle R. Cupp http://www.dfwcatholic.org/greatness4163/.html/comment-page-1#comment-40798 Kyle R. Cupp Thu, 07 May 2009 12:01:34 +0000 http://www.dfwcatholic.org/?p=4163#comment-40798 Magnanimity might be a virtue that our modern world doesn’t get. You don’t hear about it much. Tolkien understood it: it was a chief characteristic of several of his characters (Aragorn, for example). I’d say one of the chief problems with Peter Jackson’s films was that he didn’t portray magnanimity very well. Aragorn, for example, is played as a pusillanimous self-doubter whose lady has to tell repeatedly him to be a man. Magnanimity might be a virtue that our modern world doesn’t get. You don’t hear about it much. Tolkien understood it: it was a chief characteristic of several of his characters (Aragorn, for example). I’d say one of the chief problems with Peter Jackson’s films was that he didn’t portray magnanimity very well. Aragorn, for example, is played as a pusillanimous self-doubter whose lady has to tell repeatedly him to be a man.

]]> By: George Vogt http://www.dfwcatholic.org/greatness4163/.html/comment-page-1#comment-40520 George Vogt Wed, 06 May 2009 07:59:32 +0000 http://www.dfwcatholic.org/?p=4163#comment-40520 "I used to be afraid that my desire to help my fellow-mom was borne from a place of selfish pride" "And while I know I still have a long way to go, it has made my heart lighter to allow my soul to expand." In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. - Eph 6:16 Way to go, again! “I used to be afraid that my desire to help my fellow-mom was borne from a place of selfish pride”

“And while I know I still have a long way to go, it has made my heart lighter to allow my soul to expand.”

In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. – Eph 6:16

Way to go, again!

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