All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely).
Our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness.
To dispense from the laws.
That’s why contraception is wrong by nature: it’s a limit, a Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won’t give each other Everything)
Virtue used to mean power, might, or energy.)
After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you m...
Ai xuống hỏa ngục đều có thể hát lên: Tôi đã sống theo ý tôi.
All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.
All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good.
As Buddha said, All that we are is determined by our thoughts.
Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life. Here
Becoming saints is the meaning of life. It is why we exist. It is why God created us.
Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In
God loves us more than we love Him.
God’s Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the dry times, not the high times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by h...
Greed for the things money can buy (natural wealth) is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money (artificial...
Hence man never desires infinite meat, or infinite drink. . . . But non-natural concupiscence is altogether infinite . . . Hence he that desires riches, may desire to be rich not up to a certain limit...
His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.
If human life becomes cheapened, it becomes cheapened at both ends. Parents are killed, by euthanasia, when they become a burden to their children; and children are killed, by abortion, when they beco...
In fact, educated people can justify sins more easily than uneducated people can, because they are clever enough to rationalize their sins away.
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