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...
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...
Heaven will do to earth what the New Law did to the Old: not replacement but consummation (Mt 5:17).
He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us.
Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.
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.
There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.
St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;
Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.
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.
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if...
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?
Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It’s called grace.
Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.
But God loves men more than angels in intensity, because He became one of us,
Aristotelian hylomorphic anthropology of soul and body as form and matter of a single substance, as distinct from a Platonic or Cartesian two-substance dualism, or simple materialism or simple immater...
We have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.
The doctrine of anamnesis: that all learning-that is, all learning of eternal truths-is really a remembering,
That habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.