Saturday, May 18, 2013

"without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him."

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The 1) existence and 2) providence of God are the first two things in which faith, to be saving, must believe. "l’existence de D...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

"Spirituality" is not very often "life according to the Spirit" for St. Thomas

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"one can consider as assured the following conclusions:      "1. One meets again quite unmistakably in Thomas two of the three s...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Marx on communism

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"The  Rheinische Zeitung , which cannot concede the theoretical reality of communist ideas even in their present form, and can even les...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

"Public opinion does not change this fast in free societies. Either opinion is not changing as fast as it appears to be, or society is not as free."

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"Public opinion does not change this fast in free societies. Either opinion is not changing as fast as it appears to be, or society is ...
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Saturday, April 20, 2013

"With the American, freedom is anything but a mere absence of restraint, an arbitrary, licentious indulgence, every one following his natural impulse".

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"The aspirations of this new kind of citizen were moderated by what Thomas Jefferson had called 'temperate liberty':  a capac...
Friday, April 19, 2013

"a democracy can obtain truth only as the result of experience; and many nations may perish while they are awaiting the consequences of their errors."

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"la démocratie ne peut obtenir la vérité que de l'expérience, et beaucoup de peuples ne sauraient attendre, sans périr, les résulta...

"Communion and contemplation belong therefore together."

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"Love desires no recompense other than to be loved in return; and thus God desires nothing in return for his love for us other than our...