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It's out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.
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The root reason for this is the denial of the human essence, the human equality, the human family--judging people's worth only by how efficiently or intelligently or quickly they function. This is confusing the essence with the nonessential.
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are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot.
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Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal.
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Likewise the subjection of woman to man results from the perfection of the male and the imperfection of the female sex.
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John's privilege among prophets is somewhat analogous to Mary's privilege among women. No prophet is closer to Christ than John. Christ did not call him the greatest of all the prophets and more than a prophet (Mt 11:9) because he was more complete in his eloquence, his wisdom, or even his sanctity, than any other prophet, but because he completed the whole era of prophets, the Old Law, or Old Covenant, in introducing Christ to the world. A..
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Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.
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A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.
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The root of pride is found to consist in man not being in some way subject to God and His rule.
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I will not serve"--"
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Pride is really very simple. It is the attitude of the spoiled brat: "I want what I want when I want it, and if you say No to me, I hate you." "Thy will be done" is the essential prayer of the saint; "my will be done" is the essential demand of the sinner."
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Yes, organized religion is a crutch. You mean you didn't know that you are a cripple? If you don't know that, then you are a very serious cripple indeed, mentally and spiritually.
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When God changed someone's name in Scripture, He changed their destiny: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter.
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Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things."
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But to observe our neighbor's faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful.
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Play and mirth is also "necessary for the intercourse of human life" and "to cheer the heart of man". This is why God invented not just water but also wine (Ps 104:15)."
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not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam.
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The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel's flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.
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The two most popular forms of this are the Oriental form of ignoring real physical evils by creating a mystical inner paradise through yoga and meditation,
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the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure,
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From Socrates through Aquinas, reason meant primarily the understanding of the nature of reality, the knowledge of the essences of things.
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It's just as dangerous and just as heretical to under--do as to over--do what Scripture says.
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the way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. .
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He said He was God, in many ways and at many times in the Gospels. If this was not true, that would make Him either an insane fool, if He believed it, or a blasphemous liar, if He didn't. His miracles, like His holiness, His love, and His wisdom, make it impossible to call Him a lunatic or a liar; therefore we must call Him Lord. This is the "Lord, liar, or lunatic" argument made famous by C. S. Lewis and Josh McDowell. It goes back to St. ..
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Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (symbolized by Pharaoh), through the sea (death) and the wilderness (Purgatory) to the promised land (Heaven).
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Since God writes history as man writes words, the literal events of history can be signs of other truths just as human words are signs of things other than themselves.
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the will can obey the passions instead of the reason, and this accounts for the fact that we often know what is good and what is evil--even what is good for us, what is truly best for us, for our own ultimate happiness--and yet choose evil over good, choose what we know is not in our own best interests. We can choose misery over joy if our will, led by our passions, commands our mind to focus on the short-range pleasures and ignore the long..
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The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.
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we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.
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5. You can't prove a lot of things that it would be lunacy to deny--for instance, that human reason is trustworthy, that it is not being hypnotized by a demon at every moment. Of course that thought is ridiculous, but can you prove it isn't true? No, because you'd have to use your reason to prove it, and that means trusting the validity of reason, and that is assuming the very thing you're supposed to be proving, "begging the question". If ..
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Spirit means essentially two things: 1. The power of thinking--conscious, deliberate, rational understanding. Not sense perception; that's the work of a bodily organ, like the eye. 2. The power of willing and choosing and deliberately loving. Not sensory appetite; that's the work of a bodily function, like hunger.
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martyrdom is not only not the same as suicide, it is the polar opposite of suicide, since the suicide loves nothing in life enough to keep living, while the martyr loves something so much that he gives up everything for it, even life. The suicide sees less value and meaning in life than anyone else, while the martyr sees more.
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Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world,
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Virtue" used to mean power, might, or energy.)"
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Jungians call the "collective unconscious"."
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Principles are not conclusions but starting points, principia. When
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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:
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of all the natural virtues these four are "cardinal," i.e., the hinges ("cardes") on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built."
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It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That's because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth.
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The meaning of life is to become a saint.
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since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says
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another principle demons use in spiritual warfare: multiple attacks, from many directions at once, or with many different weapons at once.
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