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Likewise the subjection of woman to man results from the perfection of the male and the imperfection of the female sex.
America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pre...
God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes...
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...
Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, Everything is grace.
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...
Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all.Bertha: What's that?Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates:...
Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our...
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.
Since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says
Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.
In art, the world conforms to the creative idea; in science, the idea conforms to the world.
Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts.
Why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:
If a government is built on the principle of benevolence similar to that of a father towards his children, that is, a paternal government . . . , in which subjects are treated like children who have n...
Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.
That freedom is lost in Hell.
Scholastics called the irascible (averting) and concupiscible (attracting) emotions.
Martyrdom is not only not the same as suicide, it is the polar opposite of suicide, since the suicide loves nothing in life enough to keep living, while the martyr loves something so much that he give...
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