The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.
Socrates: The corruption of the best things are the worst things. Or, The best, when corrupted, become the worst. As one of your English poets has said, Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
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...
Other possible means were not lacking on God’s part. One drop of blood—from Christ’s circumcision at the age of eight days—would have been sufficient to purchase all mankind’s salvation. Why then did...
No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest c...
Love makes more waves than hate. Wicked men will hate and fear you more for loving them than for hating them. They will quickly forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being r...
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.
It is why God created matter, most of all the human body, which has the greatest power to make spirit visible. (Thus the philosopher Wittgenstein, asked what a human soul could possibly look like, ans...
It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy.
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...
He offers total mercy and forgiveness to all who will accept it by trusting Him and repenting of their sins, but He does not, and cannot, give forgiveness to those who will not receive His gift. Gifts...
Haven’t you forgotten the first and most important lesson in all of philosophy, the lesson taught to all of us by Socrates, the father of philosophy? That you are wise only when you are humble, that t...
God, I don’t know whether you exist or not. Maybe I’m praying to nobody, but maybe I’m praying to you. So if you are really there, please let me know somehow, because I do want to know. I want only th...
From Socrates through Aquinas, reason meant primarily the understanding of the nature of reality, the knowledge of the essences of things.
Even God cannot make us love him. Forced love is a meaningless impossibility, like virtuous sin.
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?
Belief in angels makes an even bigger difference if you believe in God and pray, because your prayers to God to send angel help will be answered.
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...
As society grows, it knows more and more about less and less. It knows more about the little things and less about the big things. It knows more about everything and less about Everything.
As C.S. Lewis says, God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.