But a sneer can be a greater crime than a murder subjectively, for a sneer means You are beneath contempt, you are sub-human, you are worthless scum, you are not even worth taking the trouble and time...
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...
Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers—which is even sillier, because that’s like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. T...
Even biologists rank species in a hierarchical order.
Even if it were within her legal right and authority, it would harm more than help. It might be argued that it is like capital punishment today: the state has the right to use it if necessary, but sin...
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern mind, the cardina...
Furthermore, the most popular modern answer to the question of what it means to be a good person is to be kind. Do not make other people suffer. If it doesn’t hurt anyone, it’s O.K. By this standard,...
God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men
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.
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.
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...
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...
Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.
Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.
One of the reasons lust is bad (not the only reason) is that it makes you stupid. Like any addiction, it blinds your vision to everything else and focuses it on the one thing that is the object of you...
Paradoxically, sloth reigns most in our technologically busy world where leisure has been abolished and life has been programmed and scheduled down to the last detail.
Play and mirth is also necessary for the intercourse of human life and to cheer the heart of man. This is why God invented not just water but also wine (Ps 104:15).
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...
Seek and you shall find does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that...
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,
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