Truly Becoming Ourselves

Stephen P. White of Catholic University writes on the moral life and human freedom:

“The whole drama of every human life plays out between the person one is and the person one is becoming.  Human freedom is precisely that gift by which, through obedience to the truth and with the assistance of grace, man is able to act in such a way as to grow in the excellence for which he was made.”

Read the whole piece. 

Art: Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma (The Choice Between Virtue and Vice) by Frans Francken the Younger, 1633 [Museum of Fine Arts Boston]