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.
Nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.
Murder and adultery are great crimes.
Heaven will do to earth what the New Law did to the Old: not replacement but consummation (Mt 5:17).
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.
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.
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...
We have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.
Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who’s
It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of the imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the act...
[F]or a thing to be evil, one single defect suffices, whereas for it to be good . . . it is not enough for it to be good in one point only, it must be good in every respect. . . .
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
Socrates: So was I.Bertha: Are you saying you're as great as him, then?Socrates: No, no, on the contrary, I'm assuming just the opposite!
Suppose the god, the goal of progress, is changing. Then progress becomes impossible. How could we progress toward a goal that keeps receding? How could a runner make progress toward a finish line if...
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...
The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel’s flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.
The only honest reason for anyone ever to believe anything is that it is true, that it is really there.
For everything naturally desires good,
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