The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.
The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.
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.
St. Augustine says, If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
Sociologists and anthropologists tell us that religion has three dimensions: creed, code, and cult; or words, works, and worship; or theology, morality, and liturgy.
Romans 8:28 (ESV): For those who love God all things work together for good.
Revelations
Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.
Principles are not conclusions but starting points, principia. When
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...
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...
Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.
One of Beethoven’s biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For
If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which...
Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence;
God judges justly. All who sinned without [knowing] the [Mosaic] law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law (Rom 2:12). Even pagans show that...
If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment.
Kennedy: You mean it’s not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life’s red ink...
In fact, I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of...
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...
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