As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden were celebrated the first nuptials of God and man.
An interesting parallel can be drawn between Peter and Judas. There are some similarities, and yet such tremendous differences. First, Our Lord called them both devils. He called Peter Satan when he r...
All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also neg...
We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.
The sadness it feels in attaining any happiness less than the infinite—all these constitute the mating call of God to the soul.
Hous vivons aux temps des assassins —we live in days of assassins—where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.
Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.
We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.
We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has the future been so utterly unpredictable; we are not so much in a period of transition with belief i...
Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called modern ideas are really old errors with new labels.
Those who call black black and white white are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.
The most current philosophy of life is self-expressionism: Let yourself go; Do whatever you please. Any suggestion of restraining errant impulses is called a masochistic survival of the dark ages. The...
The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.
The essence of obscenity is the turning of the inner mystery into a jest.
The basic reason why erotic experiences outside of marriage create psychological strain is because the void between spirit and flesh is more closely felt.
The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular sensible entities exist in nature, and that relations abstraction...
So when God pulls down the curtain on the drama of the world’s redemption, He will not ask what part we played, but only how well we played the role assigned to us.
Like all great divorces, whether they be marital or epistemological, it had its antecedents in history.
Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.
It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself.