It is an a fortiori argument: if even the veneration of a beloved father’s relics after he dies is a good thing, how much more the veneration of a saint’s?
It is much easier to fail to love your parents than to fail to love your children. That is why there is a commandment that commands love and respect to parents, but not to children. In an age of abort...
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...
John’s privilege among prophets is somewhat analogous to Mary’s privilege among women. No prophet is closer to Christ than John. Christ did not call him the greatest of all the prophets and more than...
Love is supposed to bring us out of the dark prison of the my will be done ego into the joys of thy will be done, both horizontally and vertically, toward both the human and the divine Other.
Man's soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his mind, and pagan mythmakers for his heart and imagination and feelings. O...
Modernism and Fundamentalism are popular—they are two quick and easy answers to a complex question.
More accurately stated, man is not both angel and animal because he is neither angel nor animal; he is between angels and animals, a unique rung on the cosmic ladder.
Our faith here can only be in God, not in our faith (that’s presumption). He will never abandon us, but we can abandon Him. That’s why we must be vigilant.
Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.
Pride is really very simple. It is the attitude of the spoiled brat: I want what I want when I want it, and if you say No to me, I hate you. Thy will be done is the essential prayer of the saint; my w...
Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.
Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we must be either sinners who think we are saints, or saints who know we are sinne...
Some say that to the gods we are like flies that boys idly swat on a summer day. Others say that not a feather from a sparrow falls to the ground without the will of the Heavenly Father. Those are the...
Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.
Spirit means essentially two things: 1. The power of thinking—conscious, deliberate, rational understanding. Not sense perception; that’s the work of a bodily organ, like the eye. 2. The power of will...
The distinction between the natural and the supernatural is a distinction between two abstract aspects, not two concrete things.
The family that fights together stays together.
The fifties were far from utopia, but we all know they were significantly happier than today. At this point someone will respond by quoting the ultimate law of life: Ah, but you can't turn back the cl...
The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.
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