The two most popular forms of this are the Oriental form of ignoring real physical evils by creating a mystical inner paradise through yoga and meditation,
The good news part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.
Therefore if we lack the feeling of repentance but nevertheless want to repent; if we choose repentance with the will; we are then repenting, since repentance is that choice of the will.
Therefore the prayers we offer in the Mass for the world are far more powerful than the prayers we offer outside the Mass, even if the prayers we offer outside the Mass are the same prayers, and even...
We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God
When we use the prayers of the Church, we use the greatest prayers ever written, the words and sentiments of great saints and hymn writers and liturgists. We do this rightly, because God deserves the...
[T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5).
Desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection—indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of d...
Our ego is not God. In fact, it is often wrong, because it is fallen, foolish, and faithless.
Shows how fruitful analogies can be—not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.
War between paralyzed telepaths.
Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)
These relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
And since perfected souls will be incapable of envy, all will rejoice in their lesser level of brightness, because it will be exactly what God wills for the common good; and all will identify with tha...
Angels just see it all at once; they see all the individual applications of the general principle in the general principle
Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on b...
As C.S. Lewis says, God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.
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.
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.
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