One of Beethoven’s biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For
Like the Fellowship itself, Tolkien’s philosophy fights. It conquers what George Orwell called the smelly little orthodoxies of political correctness that have twisted and wounded our souls. In other...
It’s the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way.
It’s just as dangerous and just as heretical to under—do as to over—do what Scripture says.
If the unhappiness of the wicked angels comes at length to an end, the happiness of the good will also come to an end, which is inadmissible.
His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.
His divinity existed without His humanity before the Incarnation, but ever since the Incarnation His humanity is joined forever to His divinity. His Ascension was not the undoing of His Incarnation.
For everything naturally desires good,
Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In
Christ deliberately hides Himself, disguises Himself, gives no physical sign of His Real Presence in the Eucharist, for a crucially important purpose: to test and elicit and strengthen our faith. If w...
All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good.
That the ones who laugh the loudest and the most are usually the shallowest and the most foolish? And that the wisest are usually the gravest? Perhaps the wise are grave because they remember the grav...
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Are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot.
Yes, organized religion is a crutch. You mean you didn’t know that you are a cripple? If you don’t know that, then you are a very serious cripple indeed, mentally and spiritually.
What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.
Thus, though Christians are in no way bound by the Jewish ceremonial or civil laws (because they were all in some way preparatory for Christ), we are still under the Ten Commandments in one way, thoug...
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.
The transformation of Christ’s bodily scars into badges of glory shows us what happens, even in this life, to our souls when we lovingly and trustingly offer our sufferings to Christ and unite them to...
The root of pride is found to consist in man not being in some way subject to God and His rule.