The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth.
The purpose of Purgatory is to completely internalize, in your own individual soul, what Christ has completely accomplished in objective reality in His Passion. Nothing
The most serious religious objection to Purgatory, on the part of Protestants, is that the anticipation of the pains of Purgatory detracts from a happy death (blessed are the dead who from now on die...
The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.
The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.
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?
Socrates’ point is that there are only two kinds of people in this world: the wise, who know they are fools, and fools, who think they are wise. Wisdom,
Sacraments are that literal, that physical. Salvation is very physical. If the woman with the hemorrhage had touched the hem of St. Peter’s garment instead of Christ’s, her faith alone would not have...
Romans 8:28 (ESV): For those who love God all things work together for good.
Revelations
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...
Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.
Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. The course of true love never did run smooth. Kindness—mere kindness—cannot toler...
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...
It’s like a government agency that really works.
It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do...
It is significant that in most languages there is a single word for the essential virtue regarding both of these two relationships, which are the only two relationships where we cannot pay all that is...
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...
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...