A man who makes himself a godmust hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked. But God can become a childand talk in parables and never lose His Divinity.
The modern world has rejected for the last three hundred years (after believing in it for the first sixteen hundred years), namely, the virgin birth of Jesus from His Mother, Mary, who is a virgin.
Relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of ‘Vanaprastha,’ that is, one retired from the household cares.
Religious leaders have agreed not to disagree and those beliefs for which some of our ancestors would have died they have melted into a spineless Humanism.
Reading from St. John Chrysostom that the life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. The reason he gave was that the holiness which the monk preserves in the desert must be pre...
Purifying
Greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God:
For a woman, love is its own reason. I love you because I love you.
[A] young husband with an unfaithful wife, who is consecrated and dedicated to continence, eats daily of the Bread of Life so that the bride may one day return to both the home and the faith.
Where will the capacity for heaven come from if we have neglected it on earth? A man cannot suddenly walk into a lecture room on higher mathematics and be thrilled by its equations if all during life...
Two principles inspire much of the personal and social dealings of many a citizen in our land: What can I get out of it? and Can I get away with it? Evil is confused with good, and good is confused wi...
Truth never appeals to us unless it is personal.
Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own...
These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission in life for itself than applying the categories of the material to...
Their mockery is something like we hear today. Germany prays to God; America prays to God; England prays to God: On whose side is God? The implication being that God must necessarily be a geographical...
The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.
The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.
She satisfies my ideal. Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be love at first sight is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a drea...
Sex understood in the modern way is Eros-love severed from responsibility; it is desire without obligation. Because it is lawless desire, it is therefore Godless desire. That is why eroticism and athe...