So, God predestines, but not because God is bad. It’s because we are bad and need Him to choose us. Predestination is an expression of God’s goodness.

You cannot choose some of God, the bit that you fancy, and leave the rest. We were created to love what is good and true in others, to be attracted to its beauty.

Parents and country are the closest sources of our existence,’ says Aquinas, ‘and everyone is indebted first of all under God ...

First, and foremost, I am actually not an awful person – I am exactly how God made me, “we love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19. God designed me this way – to love to be loved!

An ESSENCE editor who has decided to pursue a “Christian courtship,” complete with no kissing before marriage, speaks with a couple who inspires her and many others to love God first.

If so, God cares deeply about man; we should as well. Man, who is created in the image of God, deserves our love and esteem.

For me, it is the knowledge that none of us are too small or insignificant to receive God’s love and grace.

We need touching, we need love. Once you start caring for your needs and learn to love yourself, you can let somebody else love you.

Instead of acting out of self-interest or convenience, the Lord challenges us to love others in excess “without calculation,” Pope Francis said on Sunday. Speaking from the window of the ...

Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota, during an interview on "Lighthouse Faith," talked about the faith significance of Easter — and stressed that it should not be "domesticated." ...