havock89

+++ The Catholic church is the supreme gift of Almighty God, to humanity. It is the only guaranteed way of getting to Heaven. +++

Voluntas plus voluntas equals Sanctitas.
Gods Will plus mans will equals sainthood.

Lex Orandi; Lex Credendi.
Law of Prayer is the law of belief.

"The first reaction to truth, is hatred"
~Tertullian~

"Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia, ibi Deus."
"Where Peter is, there is the church, there is God."
~St. Ambrose~

"Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature--but a thinking reed. It does not take the universe in arms to crush him; a vapor, a drop of water, is enough to kill him. But, though the universe should crush him, man would still be nobler than his destroyer, because he knows that he is dying, that the universe has the advantage over him; the universe knows nothing of this."
~Pensées By Blaise Pascal~

Everyone seeks happiness. Its how we are built.

When we suffer and are unhappy we ultimately do two things: We get cynical, or we get religion.

If you embrace a cynical view, you enter a cycle of seeking after pleasure.

If you embrace a religious view, you enter a cycle of seeking after joy.

Pleasure is fine if you are fido. If you have a soul it seeks joy, for that is what we were given a soul for. So that we could seek God and choose him.

In many ways pleasure and joy are complete opposites.

Pleasure starts off great and continues to provide ever decreasing returns of happiness, and ultimately fails to satisfy.

Joy starts of not being very rewarding, possibly even boring, but grows ever greater.

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