Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be w...
The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marr...
From my experience it is always well never to pay attention to what people say, but rather why they say it.
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
What some people love is not a person but the experience of being in love. The first is irreplaceable; the second is not.
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good,
Yet to be daily committed to the greatest of all wars—the one waged within.
A friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure. In this kind of love, the lover loves himself more than his friend. That is why, if the friend ever prevents him from realizing what he wants, his love...
What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
Three dominant evils prevailed—clerical concubinage, simony
Three common criminals in the eyes of Roman law carry their crosses up a hill. One of them Our Savior forgives and rescues him into paradise. It was so undramatic. In fact, it was boring. So the soldi...
This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.