Live a life of love, especially the love of God, and observe the joy of it. Live a life of lovelessness and observe the joylessness of it.
Jungians call the collective unconscious.
It is often said that we live in a youth culture. It's a lie. We live in an old culture. We idolize youth because we are old. We are tired and bored. Ancient cultures respected the old because those c...
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.
It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one.
In art, the world conforms to the creative idea; in science, the idea conforms to the world.
Honesty is a moral virtue, a matter of the will. Honesty means willing the truth with the whole of your heart. This demands sacrifice. We have little hope of attaining honesty unless we realize how de...
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does...
That freedom is lost in Hell.
Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.
Likewise the subjection of woman to man results from the perfection of the male and the imperfection of the female sex.
Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same...
Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, Everything is grace.
From the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of truth; that a great eucatastrophic tale like is a gift of divine grace, an op...
Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your w...
Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable...
Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.
Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.
Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.
Why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious: