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St. Thomas thus detects a primary source of presumption in seeking genuinely good things, like human happiness on earth, as if we did not need divine grace to attain them; and in the hope that we can obtain God's pardon and mercy without our confessing and repenting of sin.
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a God without wrath saves a man without sin by mercy without judgment for a Heaven without a Hell through a Christ without a cross.
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See C. S. Lewis' essay "Meditation in a Toolshed" for this crucial distinction.) The"
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the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;
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The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.
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The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given.
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A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it.
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shows how fruitful analogies can be--not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.
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Becoming saints is the meaning of life. It is why we exist. It is why God created us.
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But God loves men more than angels in intensity, because He became one of us,
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Zabuna o odnosu izmedu poimanja osobe i covjeka moze uzrokovati golemu stetu. Americki Vrhovni sud dvaput je pokazao da mu je prijeko potrebna lekcija iz filozofije jer ne shvaca da ljudska bica spadaju pod osobe, a ne obrnuto, da su ljudska bica osobe te kao takve posjeduju temeljna ljudska prava. Dred Scott proglasio je crnce nepotpunim osobama opravdavsi tako ropstvo i provodeci povratak odbjeglih robova kao da se radi o vlasnistvu, a ..
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christianity
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The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation."
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Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.
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When I ask my "Catholic" students what they would say to God if they died tonight and God asked them why He should let them into Heaven, fewer than 5% ever even mention Jesus Christ."
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He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us.
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wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.)
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U svakom podrucju zivota, tajna je originalnosti prestati pokusavati biti originalan i reci istinu onako kako je vidis.
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If our faith rests on God's veracity, it has an absolute and eternally unshakable foundation. If it rests on our own mind, it is as secure as sand. Does your faith look like a castle or a sand castle?
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Heaven will do to earth what the New Law did to the Old: not replacement but consummation (Mt 5:17).
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For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints.
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His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.
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he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.
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Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin"."
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Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.
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When we use the prayers of the Church, we use the greatest prayers ever written, the words and sentiments of great saints and hymn writers and liturgists. We do this rightly, because God deserves the best, and these prayers are the best. They were composed by other people, but we make them our own when we pray them, like a lover reciting a sonnet by Shakespeare to his beloved. It is Shakespeare's gift: Shakespeare gave it to him, and now he..
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Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.
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The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.
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God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men
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Revelations
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St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.
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We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation.
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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 God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt 7:7)."
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we catch the good infection of Godliness by contact.
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Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.
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For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich!
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Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.
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it is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.
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So two things, on our part, are required to receive God's saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls.
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If human life becomes cheapened, it becomes cheapened at both ends. Parents are killed, by euthanasia, when they become a "burden" to their children; and children are killed, by abortion, when they become a "burden" to their parents. All societies in history would regard these two sins as two of the most heartless and inhuman possible sins. To kill your parents is to kill yourself, your own past; and to kill your children is to kill yoursel..
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To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.
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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!
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If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment.
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we forgive those who trespass
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It's like a government agency that really works.
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