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There would be a course on the philosophy of history; another year the philosophy of Marxism, another the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, etc. All of these were presented in the light of the thought of St. Thomas.
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These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.
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Celibacy is like poetry keeping the idea ever in mind like a dream; but marriage uses chisel and brush, concentrating more on marble and canvas. Celibacy jumps to a conclusion like an intuition; marriage, like reason, labors through ebb and flow, step by step.
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Someone once told the story of a man who went out from England in a rowboat, came back, and made a great discovery -- he discovered England. It is not unlikely that in the near future, the psychologists who left the shores of sane thinking in the rowboat Novelty will soon come back to those shores once again, and will make a great discovery -- they will discover a soul. And those who make that discovery will be hailed as original thinkers, ..
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We lose our souls not only by the evil we do but also by the good we leave undone.
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Let no one think he can be totally indifferent to God in this life and suddenly develop a capacity for Him at the moment of death.
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Where will the capacity for heaven come from if we have neglected it on earth? A man cannot suddenly walk into a lecture room on higher mathematics and be thrilled by its equations if all during life he neglected to develop a taste for mathematics. A heaven of poets would be a hell to those who never learned to love poetry. And a heaven of divine truth, righteousness, and justice would be a hell to those who never studiously cultivated thos..
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In the Christian order, it is not the important who are essential, nor those who do great things who are really great. A king is no nobler in the sight of God than a peasant. The head of government with millions of troops at his command is no more precious in the sight of God than a paralyzed child. The former has greater opportunities for evil, but like the widow in the Temple, if the child fulfills his task of resignation to the will of G..
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So when God pulls down the curtain on the drama of the world's redemption, He will not ask what part we played, but only how well we played the role assigned to us.
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Let those souls who think their work has no value recognize that by fulfilling their insignificant tasks out of a love of God, those tasks assume a supernatural worth. The aged who bear the taunts of the young, the sick crucified to their beds, the ignorant immigrant in the steel mill, the street cleaner and the garbage collector, the wardrobe mistress in the theater and the chorus girl who never had a line, the unemployed carpenter and the..
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Those who call black black and white white are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.
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Why is it that the lover of horror cannot stand the sight of the crucifix? Why is it that the fanatics of murder stories are so cold to the story of the world's greatest sacrifice? The answer is that, unlike all other crimes, the crucifix accuses us.
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Three common criminals in the eyes of Roman law carry their crosses up a hill. One of them Our Savior forgives and rescues him into paradise. It was so undramatic. In fact, it was boring. So the soldiers took dice and sat down and shook them to see who would have His garments. There, within a stone's throw of them -- was being enacted the tremendous drama of redemption, and they only sat and gambled. All life is a gamble, as we only know it..
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You can justify your refusal to come to God because of scandals. So did the soldiers. It was an awful scandal that Christ the Son of God should swing impotent from a peg.
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Make this experiment whether you believe in God or not. At your first opportunity, stop in a Catholic Church for a visit. You need not believe, as we Catholics do, that Our Lord is really and truly present in the tabernacle. But just sit there for an hour, and within that hour you will experience a surpassing peace the like of which you never before enjoyed in your life. You will ask yourself as a sensationalist once asked me when we made a..
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The most current philosophy of life is self-expressionism: "Let yourself go"; "Do whatever you please." Any suggestion of restraining errant impulses is called a masochistic survival of the dark ages. The truth is that the only really self-expressive people in the world are in the insane asylum. They have absolutely no inhibitions, no conventions, and no codes. They are as self-expressive as hell, i.e., in complete disorder."
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One can well believe that a crown of thorns, and that steel nails were less terrible to the flesh of our Savior than our modern indifference which neither scorns nor prays to the Heart of Christ.
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Sin is self-mutilation, the destruction of personality -- when it takes the form of pride, it crowns Goodness with thorns; when it takes the form of dishonesty, it nails hands to a Cross; when it takes the form of hate, it blasphemes the dying; when it takes the form of lust, it crucifies.
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Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.
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Atheism is not a doctrine; it is a cry of wrath.
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No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be.
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Hitler had no need of God: in his own conceit, he was a god.
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N]o man hates God without first hating himself.
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Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.
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The very good never believe themselves very good, because they are judging themselves by the Ideal.
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Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
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