Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.
You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.
To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.
Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.
It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.
We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.
I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.
A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.
The solution to our suffering is our suffering!
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.
"God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy."
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