As our Lord said, Where your treasure is, there is your heart also. Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things.
Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction from everything except the mental state which prompted t...
Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
A deep spiritual bond exists between Christians, Moslems and Jews, for as Pope Pius XII said, all Christians are spiritual Semites because we are descended spiritually from Abraham.
Insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is.
As the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.
Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger;
When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, You know how it is; one tries to make one’s Mummy just as nice as he can. When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His...
The repeated use of the word crisis in reference to morals is interesting, for it reveals a tendency on the part of many modern writers to blame the abstract when the concrete is really at fault. They...
Satan may appear in many disguises like Christ, and at the end of the world will appear as a benefactor and philanthropist—but Satan never has and never will appear with scars.
Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an environment of love.
Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism.
It is easier to get the attention of the press when one says, as Ibsen4 did, that two and two make five, than to be orthodox and say that two and two make four.
Here is the answer, after all these years, to the mysterious words in the Gospel of the Incarnation which stated that Our Blessed Mother laid her firstborn in the manger. Did that mean that Our Blesse...
Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural...
For the Angelic Doctor, the reason of conceptual knowledge is just the contrary! It is not his distance from the animal that renders abstraction necessary; it is his distance from God. Abstraction is...
Celibacy is like poetry keeping the idea ever in mind like a dream; but marriage uses chisel and brush, concentrating more on marble and canvas. Celibacy jumps to a conclusion like an intuition; marri...
By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.
As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.