Saint In Progress, Episode 11: Don’t run yourself into a ditch! — Show Notes
Online resources, saint quotes, scripture, and other reference works about the virtue of Prudence
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Disciple of Christ, Education in Virtue
This is an excellent program developed by the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. Go →
Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
I’m reading this book right now, and it’s pretty awesome. Fr. Gregory Pine O.P. is a brilliant theological mind, and I appreciate his wit. Go →
Catholic Education Resource Center: The Virtue of Prudence
A lengthy write-up, but full of great information. Go →
Saint Quotes
St. John Chrysostom
“Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“Song was given to a number of creatures, but human beings alone were endowed with the faculty of speech, to indicate that in speaking we should use our reason.”
St. Augustine
“Prudence is love choosing wisely between things that help and things that hinder.”
“Prudence is the knowledge of what to seek and what to avoid.”
Scripture
Proverbs 14:8
“The wisdom of a prudent man is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.”
Proverbs 14:15
“The prudent man looks where he is going.”
Proverbs 15:5
“A fool despises his father’s instruction, but he who heeds admonition is prudent.”
Sirach 22:27
O that a guard were set over my mouth, and a seal of prudence upon my lips, that it may keep me from falling, so that my tongue may not destroy me!
Luke 14:28-32
“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace.”
Summa Theologiae II-II
Question 47. Prudence, considered in itself