"Lord, in my zeal for the love of truth, let me not forget the truth about love" --
Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Lord youve made us for yourself; therefore our hearts are restless until we rest in Thee"---
Saint Augustine of Hippo

CCC 27: The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for.

ST Sections 3, 7 in all parts:
The Blessed Trinity, Sovereignty of God;
Passions, Divine Grace;
Charity, Temperance;
The Sacraments, Reconciliation.

Cyril of Jerusalem (318-386 A.D.) on the Church: "It is called Catholic because it extends over all the world, from one end of the earth to the other; and because it teaches universally and completely one and all the doctrines which ought to come to men's knowledge, concerning things both visible and invisible, heavenly and earthly; and because it brings into subjection to godliness the whole race of mankind, governors and governed, learned and unlearned; and because it universally treats and heals the whole class of sins"

As a Theist, I merely lack the belief in metaphysical naturalism.

The true creed of Christianity:
[I] We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father. Through Him all things were made. For us men and our salvation He came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the Virgin Mary , and became man. For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered, died, and was buried. On the third day He rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son, He is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.


Verses of Scripture everyone should read.

John 3: 16.
John 6: 48-58.
James 2: 14-26.
Matthew 16: 15-19.
John 20: 21-23.
Timothy 3: 15.
Corinthians 3: 10-15.
Revelation 14: 1.
Galatians 5: 6.
Galatians 3: 5.
1 John 4: 20.

"Who is so foolishly curious as to send his son to school to learn what the teacher thinks?"
-St. Augustine

"One cannot think for oneself if one thinks entirely by oneself"
-Alasdair MacIntyre

"The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless--one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan's will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite's will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special."
-G.K. Chesterton.

Hold your breath folks:
"Reason is the devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the devil's appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed"
-Martin Luther, Last Sermon at Wittenberg

"Lastly, those are not all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all; besides also, those that by their atheism undermine and destroy all religion, can have no pretence of religion whereupon to challenge the privilege of toleration." -John Locke.

"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding." -Plato

"On the personal level, Atheism acts as a crutch. It gives folks a prepackaged worldview, and saves them from having to think for themselves or to seek answers to or even ask life's difficult questions. Atheism is the opiate of the egotistical." -Iosue Andreas.

"Due to the typical attitude of the contemporary naturalist... the vast majority of naturalist philosophers have come to hold (since the late 1960s) an unjustified belief in naturalism. Their justifications have been defeated by arguments developed by theistic philosophers, and now naturalist philosophers, for the most part, live in darkness about the justification for naturalism. They may have a true belief in naturalism, but they have no knowledge that naturalism is true since they do not have an undefeated justification for their belief. If naturalism is true, then their belief in naturalism is accidentally true." [The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism,"
Q. Smith:
A Journal of Philosophy (Fall-Winter 2001)]