Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.