Not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam.
He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us.
There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.
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...
How do we listen to his voice? With the ear of our heart. With love. Love has ears, as love has eyes. Just be there, and love him, and let him love you. (35). Easier said than done. What will happen t...
I will not serve—
Nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.
Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.
The literary establishment in England was stunned, shocked, and scandalized by an event of millennial significance when a major bookstore chain innocently polled English-speaking readers, asking them...
Article 10: Whether symbolic logic is superior to Aristotelian logic for philosophizing? Objection 1 : It seems that it is, for it is a modern development, and would not have become popular if it were...
But God loves men more than angels in intensity, because He became one of us,
Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know.
Murder and adultery are great crimes.
Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature’s freely choosing sin and selfishness.
They are our bodyguards and soulguards. But not as servants or pets. If anything, we are like pets to them.
That habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.
Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.
St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;
The doctrine of anamnesis: that all learning-that is, all learning of eternal truths-is really a remembering,
However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God,
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