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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.

However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God,

The meaning of life is to become a saint.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

shows how fruitful analogies can be - not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Tempting is not forcing.

The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do ... create.

As C.S. Lewis says, "God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.

Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men

When the soul no longer conforms to the will of God, the body no longer conforms to the will of the soul.

God said it, that settles it.

the instinct Rousseau found in himself and followed: the instinct to deceive, rob, and seduce rich ladies and to abandon his own children.

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore,

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

That freedom is lost in Hell.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

Love gives you eyes.

The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.

Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

God loves us more than we love Him.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

his total refusal to be tempted by the prostitute

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

Condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us.

Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?

Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

In a sense "all the way to Heaven is Heaven" (St. Catherine).

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

You cannot be in love with love.

ora et labora, prayer and work.

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts.

Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

(4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.

we forgive those who trespass

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment.

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

It is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood Christ.