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“Unless men believe that they have an all-powerful ally outside time, they will inevitably abandon the ideal of a supernatural or anti-natural moral progress, and make the best of the world as they find it, conforming themselves to the law of self- interest and self-preservation which governs the rest of nature. And thus the philosophy of Progress, which had inspired such bound- less hopes for the future of the human race, resulted in negation and disillusionment. The Cartesian Reason, which had entered so triumphantly on its career of explaining nature and man to itself by its own unaided power, ended in a kind of rational suicide by explaining itself away.”
~Christopher Dawson
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Resist.
Pray.
Deny the antichrist from your soul.
Have children.
"Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended. Men merely finding themselves free found themselves free to dispute the value of freedom."
~G.K. Chesterton
My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes, many times, my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens and it happens every day in some measure, I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.
John Piper
”The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.“
“Great is the Baptism that lies before you: a ransom to captives; a remission of offenses; a death of sin; a new-birth of the soul; a garment of light; a holy indissoluble seal; a chariot to heaven; the delight of Paradise; a welcome into the kingdom; the gift of adoption!”
–St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Procatechesis, no. 16
"In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart. And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps. With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favour, you shall reach the goal."
~St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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The laws of the spirit of man must hold, alike in this world and in any world he may invent. It were no offence to suppose a world in which everything repelled instead of attracted the things around it; it would be wicked to write a tale representing a man it called good as always doing bad things, or a man it called bad as always doing good things: the notion itseif is absolutely lawless. In physical things a man may invent; in moral things he must obey - and take their laws with him into his invented world as well.
— George MacDonald
"The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out."
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila -
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𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐘
That Spiritual hunger, that yearning for the Divine.
That perfect alignment of the soul with the Will of God.
It brings forth a state of perfect confidence, perfect alertness and wakefulness. A perfect trust in the Divine and oneself. No doubt and no clutter or noise in the mind. A willingness to do whatever is necessary at that moment in time to achieve Truth and Goodness.
Grand Is the Seen
By Walt Whitman
"Grand is the seen, the light, to me–grand are the sky and stars,
Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,
And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;
But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,
Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,
(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?)
More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul!
More multiform far–more lasting thou than they."
"Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly the angel who guards you will honor your patience."
~St. John Climicus,
Step 5.30, Ladder of Divine Ascent
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"Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over one’s own biography means to get clear about who one wants to be…"
~Jürgen Habermas
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