Politics has become so all-possessive of life, that by impertinence it thinks the only philosophy a person can hold is the right or the left. This question puts out all the lights of religion so they...
Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent.
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readj...
Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not a...
Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing to let anyone believe in God if he pleases, but only on condi...
There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt....
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think...
The lover of God never knows the words too much. Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.
Sin is self-mutilation, the destruction of personality — when it takes the form of pride, it crowns Goodness with thorns; when it takes the form of dishonesty, it nails hands to a Cross; when it takes...
Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: God loves me! And then add: And I will try to love Him!
Sanctity means separation from the spirit of the world, with immersion in the activity of the world. Saints would be in the world, not of it; they would have no public relation boosters to publicize t...
Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol.
One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge... It is too sacred to be profaned.
One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity.
It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy of our day.
Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.
Everyone else who was ever born into the world, came into it to live; our Lord came into it to die.
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II,
The very permanence of marriage is destructive of those fleeting infatuations, which are born with the moment and die with it; it destroys selfishness, furthermore, because the mutual love of husband...