When a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .
1) Physical gravity is a physical form of love. That little rock is falling because it’s in love with the big rock called the earth.
4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man’s loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.
See C. S. Lewis’ essay Meditation in a Toolshed for this crucial distinction.) The
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A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added o...
A great story must have, first of all, a good plot, a great deed, a good work, something worth doing. You cannot write a great story about saving a button on a sweater and nothing more. You can, howev...
A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.
All the way to Heaven is Heaven, said Saint Catherine of Siena. We
Ancient ethics always dealt with three questions. Modern ethics usually deals with only one, or at the most two. The three questions are like the three things a fleet of ships is told by its sailing o...
And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws, or 'society's standards.' A law is enforced only by force. So yo...
As I said, relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes.
Because CPR resuscitates thousands today, it is now a commonly known NDE or near—death experience, that at the moment of death your whole life passes before you in an instant, with perfect clarity; an...
Corruptio optimi pessima. The corruption of the best things are the worst things.
De Caussade makes this matter of duty very simple, too, as he makes everything simple: We have two duties to fulfill: we must actively seek to carry God’s will into effect and passively accept all tha...
Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.
Dostoyevsky says, love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams (The Brothers Karamazov).
Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will.
Even though we hate some of the things we do or feel, we hate them only because we love ourselves. We feel we are unworthy of such bad stuff.
From Socrates through Aquinas, reason meant primarily the understanding of the nature of reality, the knowledge of the essences of things.
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