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...
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...
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
Scholastics called the irascible (averting) and concupiscible (attracting) emotions.
Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.
Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world,
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...
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...
There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.
If our faith rests on God’s veracity, it has an absolute and eternally unshakable foundation. If it rests on our own mind, it is as secure as sand. Does your faith look like a castle or a sand castle?
St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.
He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us.
His total refusal to be tempted by the prostitute
Love works; and if we do not see the works of love (in places where they obviously ought to be) then we can be sure that love is not present.
We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.
Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.
Many saints were made out of passionate sinners—the angry, the hating, the lustful, the cynical; but none were ever made out of the slothful.
Here is what they got out of their hoax. Their friends and families scorned them. Their social standing, possessions, and political privileges were stolen from them by both Jews and Romans. They were...
The nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;
Not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam.
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