In vain will the world seek for equality until it has seen all men through the eyes of faith. Faith teaches that all men, however poor, or ignorant, or crippled, however maimed, ugly, or degraded they...
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...
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...
You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York. She did not understand the paradox.
Without Me you can do nothing… nothing.
The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars;
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 will never find a professor who denies freedom of the will who does not also have something in his life for which he wishes to shake off responsibility.
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 well believe that a crown of thorns, and that steel nails were less terrible to the flesh of our Savior than our modern indifference which neither scorns nor prays to the Heart of Christ.
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.
Blessed also are the poor in spirit socially.
As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden were celebrated the first nuptials of God and man.
All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also neg...