Nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
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...
Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know.
They are our bodyguards and soulguards. But not as servants or pets. If anything, we are like pets to them.
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...
Some philosophers
Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature’s freely choosing sin and selfishness.
Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.
Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.
Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real.
Philosophy is not confined to philosophers, thank God. Everyone has a philosophy. As Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good...
Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.
I will not serve—
Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal.
But to observe our neighbor’s faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful.
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...
8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.
The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness.
You have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.