Be the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it

There's not a day that goes 
                  by I don't think of you

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest confession of failure, (4) repentance, and (5) at least an implicit faith and hope in God as Savior.

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

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

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

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:

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

St. Thomas is as practical and plain and reasonable in ethics as Aristotle, or Confucius, or your uncle.

Peter Kreeft

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