Brother Lawrence says, in , 'There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience...
Aristotle also believed that a vacuum was impossible.
We forgive those who trespass
There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.
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.
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.
God said it, that settles it.
13. Moderation is dull. (Read G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday to refute that cliché.)
The nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;
The family that fights together stays together.
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...
Marriage is earth’s closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.
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.
It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one.
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...
In art, the world conforms to the creative idea; in science, the idea conforms to the world.
Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.
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...
Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.