The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man.
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...
Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who’s
Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.
Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most s...
Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.
Love works; and if we do not see the works of love (in places where they obviously ought to be) then we can be sure that love is not present.
It’s like a government agency that really works.
However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God,
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...
He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us.
God loves us more than we love Him.
For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich!
Even biologists rank species in a hierarchical order.
But to observe our neighbor’s faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful.
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...
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
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.