The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.
Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called “modern” ideas are really old errors with new labels.
Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays are to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes; and the closer it gets to the center, the stronger it becomes.
The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.
The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.
The basic reason why erotic experiences outside of marriage create psychological strain is because the void between spirit and flesh is more closely felt.
Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.
Remarriage while the true partner is living is a vain attempt to give respectability to dishonor by invoking a human law that overthrows God’s law:.
Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent.
She satisfies my ideal.” Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be “love at first sight” is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a dream.
If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.
The lover of God never knows the words “too much.” Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.
One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity.
The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another’s unhappiness.
As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God’s love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life’s mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other’s inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds and hearts in the ways of God;.
A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.
Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.
Love itself starts with the desire for something good.
What some people love is not a person but the experience of being in love. The first is irreplaceable; the second is not.
A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal love from the people it sees, from the books it reads, from its hopes and daydreams, in the fond hope that the eye may one day see the ideal and the hand touch it. Life becomes satisfying the moment the dream is seen walking, and the person appears as the incarnation of all that one loved. The.