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...
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...
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...
He said He was God, in many ways and at many times in the Gospels. If this was not true, that would make Him either an insane fool, if He believed it, or a blasphemous liar, if He didn’t. His miracles...
Heart here refers especially to deep feeling or emotion. Heart means not only (1) intuitive reason (the heart has its reasons) and (2) will
Heidegger says that the fundamental question of metaphysics is why is there anything at all rather than nothing? The fundamental question is not, as Plato thought, what a thing is (every Platonic dial...
Humans are the lowest (least intelligent) of spirits and the highest (most intelligent) of animals. We are rational animals, incarnate minds, the smartest of animals and the stupidest of spirits:
I often thought of comparing life to a dream, because death always seemed to be an awakening.
In a sense all the way to Heaven is Heaven (St. Catherine).
It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That’s because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth.
Light, life, and love parallel the three absolute values of truth, goodness, and beauty, the supreme values of the three parts of the soul; intellect, will, and emotions. God is all truth, goodness, a...
Our attempts at charity without God, our attempts at charity before faith and hope, all fail because they are based on ourselves and our own false sufficiency and our own righteousness as their founda...
Prayer is not only conversation, it is transformation. It is not only light, it is fire. And the closer you get to Him, the hotter the fire gets. Words begin to melt. The first word that melts in His...
Reason is His voice, His interior prophet, in our souls. We call that prophet conscience. (St. Thomas used two terms for it: synderesis was the awareness of its reality and truth and authority and rul...
Since God writes history as man writes words, the literal events of history can be signs of other truths just as human words are signs of things other than themselves.
So nothing can be ours by right, by nature, or by necessity. But one thing is mine by my free choice: the self I give away in love. This is the thing even God cannot do for me. It really is my choice....
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.
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.
The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love.
The meaning of life is to become a saint.
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