With every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him.
We catch the good infection of Godliness by contact.
To dispense from the laws.
The instinct Rousseau found in himself and followed: the instinct to deceive, rob, and seduce rich ladies and to abandon his own children.
Sex for reproduction
Ora et labora, prayer and work.
Of all the natural virtues these four are cardinal, i.e., the hinges (cardes) on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built.
A man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer.
Why Won’t We Be Bored in Heaven? Because we are with God, and God is infinite. We never come to the end of exploring Him. He is new every day. Because we are with God, and God is eternal. Time does no...
We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though...
Unworthy does not mean undeserving, for we are all undeserving! It means incapable of receiving.
To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.
The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel’s flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.
The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man.
The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.
Tempting is not forcing.
Socrates: Know thyself. For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are o...
Sociologists and anthropologists tell us that religion has three dimensions: creed, code, and cult; or words, works, and worship; or theology, morality, and liturgy.
So two things, on our part, are required to receive God’s saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow...
Principles are not conclusions but starting points, principia. When