The Church also seems to be in the social service business, the counseling business, the fundraising business, the daycare business-dozens of the same worthy businesses the secular world is also in. W...
Unworthy does not mean undeserving, for we are all undeserving! It means incapable of receiving.
But to observe our neighbor’s faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful.
A man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer.
Tempting is not forcing.
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...
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...
Some philosophers
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...
The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness.
One of Beethoven’s biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For
With every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him.
Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.
Aristotelian hylomorphic anthropology of soul and body as form and matter of a single substance, as distinct from a Platonic or Cartesian two-substance dualism, or simple materialism or simple immater...
Those who love Tolkien are almost always good people, honest people. Some are Hobbit-like and some are Elvish, but none are Orcish. Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.
The arrow of our souls flies to God as the target—unless the arrow is so badly bent that it flies backwards, in which case it pierces the eye of the archer and makes him blind as a Pharisee.
We forgive those who trespass
Physical emotions are moved by chemicals, nerve endings, weather, digestion, hormones, and a thousand other things in the body or the physical world. Animals can’t love without physical emotion. Angel...
Revelations
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