Burke on Evil

St. Benedict, Abbot

In light of our most interesting discussion of Boenhoffer last week, I was struck by this quote of Edmund Burke that showed up in my inbox this morning.

A Year with St. Benedict: April 27, 2013

 

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good to do nothing," Edmund Burke wrote. But if that's the case, then all the evil in the world belongs to us. Now what do you think about that? 

 

This "year with St. Benedict" meditation comes to me each day from Trinity Wall Street/Forward Movement <news@forwardmovement.org> via <forwarddaybyday.ccsend.com>. The meditations are from the book The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict by Joan Chittister, OSB.