By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.
Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor. On
Insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is.
The very fact that a man or a woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all, for though sex is replaceable, love is not.
Satan may appear in many disguises like Christ, and at the end of the world will appear as a benefactor and philanthropist—but Satan never has and never will appear with scars.
No worldly mind would ever have suspected that He Who could make the sun warm the earth would one day have need of an ox and an ass to warm Him with their breath; that He Who, in the language of Scrip...
Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism.
Let those souls who think their work has no value recognize that by fulfilling their insignificant tasks out of a love of God, those tasks assume a supernatural worth. The aged who bear the taunts of...
Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the close...
If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little kinks.
How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighb...
Here is the answer, after all these years, to the mysterious words in the Gospel of the Incarnation which stated that Our Blessed Mother laid her firstborn in the manger. Did that mean that Our Blesse...
God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.
Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.
As our Lord said, Where your treasure is, there is your heart also. Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things.
As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.
A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.
A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked.
A deep spiritual bond exists between Christians, Moslems and Jews, for as Pope Pius XII said, all Christians are spiritual Semites because we are descended spiritually from Abraham.