Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
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It is no more irrational for the mind to take the word of the Eternal Word than for the eye to use light and for the ear to welcome sound.
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As the wedded pair have given each other power over their bodies, it would be a grave sin for one to refuse either altogether or for a considerable time the fulfilment of the marriage debt.
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Perhaps no General Council has been more naturally fitted than the Vatican Council to produce a masterpiece of religious thought and literature. No assembly of men since the time of Christ has ever been so representative of Christian and national thought.
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Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason.
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Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.
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The Virgin Birth is possible if there is a God. An Omnipotent Being who can do all things and yet cannot do some things is hardly worth our attack or defence.
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The forms of thought, into which we throw our timid views of God, are but symbols of truths greater than our thoughts. Yet we may not set them aside as worthless, for they are the rungs on which we dwellers in the cave climb to the full view of the Truth, as he is.
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The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.