The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the physical theory forgets that it has no suc...
The celibate is bound to feel lonely in that atmosphere, but it is a different kind of loneliness that plagues the erotic. The former is tempted because, in the natural order, he is without a partner;...
The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.
The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars
THOSE who start with the pagan philosophy of sex must face life as a descent. Associated with a growing old, there is a loss of physical energy and the horrible perspective of death. The Christian phi...
Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say, I am too great a sinner to change, or God would not want m...
Someone once told the story of a man who went out from England in a rowboat, came back, and made a great discovery — he discovered England. It is not unlikely that in the near future, the psychologist...
Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.
Remarriage while the true partner is living is a vain attempt to give respectability to dishonor by invoking a human law that overthrows God’s law:
Our Blessed Lord used an illustration of this mystery, You cannot understand the blowing of the wind, but you obey its laws and thus harness its force; so also with the Spirit. Obey the law of the win...
No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with the divine power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray...
Let no one think he can be totally indifferent to God in this life and suddenly develop a capacity for Him at the moment of death.
It is well to remember that authorities in the field of science are really opinions, and that such authorities have a wax nose and can be led anywhere one chooses.
In the circuits of the planets there are times when the heavens are under the earth, and in the ways of God with men there was a time when Heaven was under the earth, and that was when Christ was born...
He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation. Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted fathe...
Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of...
Blessed finally are the poor in spirit intellectually. Blessed are the humble, and the teachable who like the Shepherds know they know nothing, or like the Wise Men who know they do not know everythin...
As Euripides said: He is not a lover who does not love forever.
No man hates God without first hating himself.
Relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of ‘Vanaprastha,’ that is, one retired from the household cares.