All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely).
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.
Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.
Yet one’s joy will be greater than another’s on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness
When God changed someone’s name in Scripture, He changed their destiny: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter.
We see that the universe is full of all sorts of species. Every possible rung on the cosmic hierarchy is filled. There are no gaps. Below us there are intelligent animals, like apes, then less intelli...
We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation.
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.
Truth is unchanging. The principles of morality are unchanging. The human essence is unchanging. Therefore there is no hope of a New Man, Heaven on Earth, Babel Rebuilt, a Brave New World, or Superman...
Thus the quintessentially conservative dogma of Christ’s divinity as the pre-incarnate eternal Logos is the basis for the quintessentially liberal hope that good pagans can go to Heaven. He is indeed...
There is little passion for anything except pleasure and comfort and security. Indeed, passion is confused with fanaticism.
There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righ...
There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.
The universal sin Saint Paul pinpoints in Romans 1:18 is to suppress the truth.
The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.
The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.
The second reason was to make public and visible an invisible spiritual reality. This is the purpose of all the sacraments. Indeed, it is the fundamental purpose of matter itself.
The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.
The family that fights together stays together.