That habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.
A man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer.
We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to...
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
Unworthy does not mean undeserving, for we are all undeserving! It means incapable of receiving.
The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel’s flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.
The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.
St. Augustine says, If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature’s freely choosing sin and selfishness.
Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.
Philosophy is not confined to philosophers, thank God. Everyone has a philosophy. As Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good...
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if...
KANT: The traditional religious foundation for morality may be ontologically stronger, but I say it is not logically or epistemologically stronger. It cannot be proved by speculative, theoretical reas...
It’s out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.
If our faith rests on God’s veracity, it has an absolute and eternally unshakable foundation. If it rests on our own mind, it is as secure as sand. Does your faith look like a castle or a sand castle?
God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men
Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal.
All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good.
8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.
Wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.)