Good theology is not the knowledge of theology but the knowledge of God. Bad theology is the theology of the theologian who died and went to Heaven and at the gates of Heaven God offered him the choic...
For any act to be morally right, three things are necessary: (1) right act, (2) right motive, and (3) right circumstances. If any one of these factors is not right, the act is wrong.
First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth...
Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves.
Expect the world to be Heaven, and it will feel like Hell. Expect it to be Purgatory, and it will feel like Heaven. The two most salient facts about Purgatory are pain and hope, suffering and meaning.
Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.
Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will.
Doesn’t certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don’t you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X anywhere?
Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (...
Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.
Becoming saints is the meaning of life. It is why we exist. It is why God created us.
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...
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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...
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
These relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.
Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)
4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man’s loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.
The will can obey the passions instead of the reason, and this accounts for the fact that we often know what is good and what is evil—even what is good for us, what is truly best for us, for our own u...
The way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. .