Since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says
His total refusal to be tempted by the prostitute
We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--...
Scholastics called the irascible (averting) and concupiscible (attracting) emotions.
Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts.
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
Marriage is earth’s closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.
Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.
Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.
Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world,
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...
Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
Murder and adultery are great crimes.
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...
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.
St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.
Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most s...
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.
However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God,