It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins (2 Maccabees, 12:46)

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored (Aldous Huxley, +1963)

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. (Saint Thomas Aquinas, +1274)

Let us fix our gaze on the Father and Creator of the whole world, and let us hold on to his peace and blessings,...

The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore...

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.  (Anthony Mary Claret, +1870)

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (Saint Francis of Assisi)

(I)f there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power....

Enlarge your desires, do not bear the yoke with unbelievers. The deeper our faith, the stronger our hope, the greater our desire, the larger...

if a man is united inwardly with the Son of the living God, he also bears his likeness outwardly by his continual practice of...