Part IIa IIaeFortitudeQuestion 133
Faintheartedness or Pusillanimity
- Faintheartedness or pusillanimity is a culpable disposition to refuse to face up to situations of difficulty that one might well handle and overcome. By presumption, a man takes on more than he can handle; by faintheartedness, a man refuses to do what he can. This faintheartedness is a sin. The servant who buried his one talent because he was too fainthearted to engage in trade with it,was punished, as for a sin (Matt., chap. 15).
Full Summa Text · II-II, Q. 133
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