You have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.
Wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.)
We forgive those who trespass
Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.
It is possible to love one’s friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one’s enemy.
Is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He
Essential form
[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. . . .
We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to...
The only honest reason for anyone ever to believe anything is that it is true, that it is really there.
The Church also seems to be in the social service business, the counseling business, the fundraising business, the daycare business-dozens of the same worthy businesses the secular world is also in. W...
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...
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!
Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who’s
It’s out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.
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...
God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men
God judges justly. All who sinned without [knowing] the [Mosaic] law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law (Rom 2:12). Even pagans show that...
Furthermore, the most popular modern answer to the question of what it means to be a good person is to be kind. Do not make other people suffer. If it doesn’t hurt anyone, it’s O.K. By this standard,...
For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich!