Mental Prayer is an ascent or approach of the mind to God. 

In last analysis then, Mental Prayer is the act of the soul seeking the society of Our Divine Lord, with a view to receiving His direction and coming under the control of His Sacred Humanity.

When the soul moved by grace resolves to place itself entirely under the direction of Jesus in view of its spiritual advancement, it is, ordinarily speaking, full of imperfections.

The Good is what conforms to reality.

Without prayer salvation is impossible.

I have picked out three main aspects of Dietrich von Hildebrand's legacy that speak to us powerfully even today:  witness, personalist, and philosopher of beauty and the heart.

Where sentimentality pervades, we cannot make the proper distinctions.

All our dealings with God must have a background of pleading in them; a note of entreaty must run through the varied movements of the soul towards its God.

There's a lot of talk these days about "The Way of Beauty" and even about more ambitious projects like "the re-enchantment of the world" — by everyone from casual bloggers to the Holy Father in Evangelii Gaudium.

The controversy over Duck Dynasty's patriarch Phil Robertson's interview in GQ may make some of us want to seek shelter from the hostile bombardment of those who would silence anyone who dares to speak of homosexual acts as sins.