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Consequently there can be no hope whatever for those communities that renounce the austere worship of truth for the idolatry of the intellect. Sophisms produce revolutions and sophists are succeeded by hangmen.

“as faith is impaired in this world, truth is weakened, and how the society that turns its back upon God, will find it’s horizon quickly enveloped in frightful obscurity.”

The falling off from our resolution happens diverse ways, and a small omission in our exercises seldom passeth without some loss.

Thou must be content to be made a fool for Christ, if thou wilt lead a religious life.

Inconstancy of mind, and small confidence in God, is the beginning of all evil temptations.

Blended music for a liturgy might begin with a classic hymn; a favorite by the St. Louis Jesuits might come next; Catholic contemporary songs at Communion time; and then another classic hymn to send people home. Blending styles sounds like an astute compromise, but sometimes the contemporary enthusiasts hate this arrangement because "Churchy" music, presented well, always makes their items sound anemic by comparison.

I wonder if the great majority of Catholic laypeople sense [perhaps unconsciously] that the theology behind the music is confused at best, and to protect the orthodoxy of the Church they frequently refrain from singing.

Much of the grubbiness [of love] is clean dirt if only you will leave it in the garden and not keep sprinkling it over the library table.

Our loves do not make their claim to divinity until the claim becomes plausible.

Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved.

There is always something they [the damned] insist on keeping even at the price of misery. There is always something they prefer to joy- that is, to reality.

Nowhere do we tempt so successfully as on the very steps of the altar.

The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives… all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing the soul out by attrition.

They [humans], of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good.

Thus we make it fashionable to expose the dangers of enthusiasm at the very moment when they are all really becoming worldly and lukewarm.

We want very much to make men treat Christianity as a means; preferably, of course, as a means to their own advancement.

We [demons] make the sophists: He [God] raises up a Socrates to answer them.

…nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckoned on having at his own disposal unexpectedly taken from him.

Consult with a wise and conscientious man and seek rather to be instructed by one who is better, than to follow thine own inventions

Would that their lives had been answerable to their learning!

If thou didst know the whole bible by heart, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what would it profit thee without the love of God and his grace?

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven; but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have desired anything else.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,

‘I now see that I spent most of my life doing neither what I ought nor what I liked’

Once you have made the world an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man

I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The ‘Life Force’, the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis, may here prove useful.

For they constantly forget, what you must always remember, that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.