Hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem.
When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin refuses to change, God sends chastisement. This chastisement need not be external, and certainly...
When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, You know how it is; one tries to make one’s Mummy just as nice as he can.
We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.
We live in days of assassins’—where evil is sought in lives more than good to justify a world with a bad conscience.
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
Thus He did at a marriage feast what He would not do in a desert; He worked in the full gaze of men what He had refused to do before Satan. Satan asked Him to turn stones into bread in order that He m...
The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true than another.
The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.
Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism.
Just as there are those who believe we should change morality to suit our amorality, so there are those who believe we should change God to suit our godlessness.
It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake.
It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than...
In the circuits of the planets there are times when the heavens are under the earth, and in the ways of God with men there was a time when Heaven was under the earth, and that was when Christ was born...
In divorce cases, this is called mental torture or domination. Really, it is egocentricity, in which one ego loves itself in the other ego. The I is projected into the Thou and is loved in the Thou. T...
I study philosophy after my dinner, but the dinner is not the cause o my studying philosophy.
He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.
He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation. Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted fathe...
Blessed finally are the poor in spirit intellectually. Blessed are the humble, and the teachable who like the Shepherds know they know nothing, or like the Wise Men who know they do not know everythin...
As Euripides said: He is not a lover who does not love forever.