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The contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.
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...
Another principle demons use in spiritual warfare: multiple attacks, from many directions at once, or with many different weapons at once.
A God without wrath saves a man without sin by mercy without judgment for a Heaven without a Hell through a Christ without a cross.
Yet one’s joy will be greater than another’s on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness
What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.
We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light.
U svakom području života, tajna je originalnosti prestati pokušavati biti originalan i reći istinu onako kako je vidiš.
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.
There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.
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
Socrates: Know thyself. For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are o...
Romans 8:28 (ESV): For those who love God all things work together for good.
Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not.
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.
Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.
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.
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...