Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves.
We are participating in His actual work.
Nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.
Not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam.
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 mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;
Scholastics called the irascible (averting) and concupiscible (attracting) emotions.
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
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.
Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.
Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It’s called grace.
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...
Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.
Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.
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,
Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our soul: . 'The true, the good, and the beautiful' are the three things we nee...
They are our bodyguards and soulguards. But not as servants or pets. If anything, we are like pets to them.
The only honest reason for anyone ever to believe anything is that it is true, that it is really there.