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Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is pure.
“Nothing in Heaven compares to the beauty of God, and nothing on earth approaches the beauty of a woman. For this reason, women have a unique role in revealing God to the world…’God has a beauty to unveil, a beauty that is captivating and powerfully redemptive.’ Like His, your beauty is powerful.” — Jason Evert (via heartallonfire)
From the book dating Delilah By Judah Smith
When asked these questions by James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal, here is what Cardinal Dolan said:
“Do we ever!” the archbishop replies with a hearty laugh. “I’m not afraid to admit that we have an internal catechetical challenge—a towering one—in convincing our own people of the…
Life Outside the Lines: Song of Solomon 6:3 {spoken word} -
I take notice of my generation and it fills me with frustration
as I see royalty toss their crowns for a moment of elation.
It’s not just what I can see, it’s encompassing the nation
because purity has undergone a process of cremation.
I’m not saying it’s dead, but we did try to kill it,
put it under fire when parents’ tried to instill it.
Scattered it’s ashes to the edges of the earth,
but we forgot that ashes just bring new birth.
Where the movement began is neither here nor there,
it was bred from the Father’s heart and incubated with prayer.
It stirred in the being of those who would dare,
carved in the wood of the cross some will bear.
But the world tried to tell us that sex is worthless,
that it’s just for recreation and pleasure, no purpose.
No strings attached or room for lies,
no indication of soul ties.
They say you can watch it without perverting your mind.
They say when you’re drunk there’s no better time.
It starts when we’re young in a malleable state,
purity is made out to be a trap we all should hate.
Waiting for divine covenant is like missing the bait.
Remind you of the fruit that Adam once ate?
Just one bite and darkness takes hold,
just one night and chains are in mold.
But thank God for the chain breaker, holy and fierce
with resurrection life, brought a love that would pierce.
And this love is the fire that stirred up my heart:
Created for the beloved from the very start.
“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.” -S.O.S. 6:3
“Why am I discouraged?
Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!
I will praise him again—
my Savior and my God!”
— Psalm 42:5-6 (via aboveallhis)
“Lust is the friendship of ignorance, or rather the ignorance of friendship.” — John Milton
The Angelic Warfare Confraternity -
A “supernatural fellowship of men and women bound to one another in love and dedicated to pursuing and promoting chastity together under the powerful patronage of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
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9 Ways to Fight the Temptation of Pornography -
It’s insane to settle for a mud puddle of pleasure when you have an ocean of pleasure awaiting you in the presence of the Triune God.
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“God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful — ‘severe mercies’ at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.” — Elisabeth Elliot (via smilingatthefuture)
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True manhood, real love.