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.
Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing to us, not those who are hateful.
Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new i...
If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state bec...
Love needs no reasons. Sex asks science to defend it; love never asks Why? It says, I love you. Love is its own reason.
To marry someone with the idea of possessing him or her is to rob that person of the precious endowment of liberty. If that other person is mine, like a cocktail, then he or she can never make a prese...
This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.
They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.
St. Augustine also states that, in a sense, shame is related to disobedience. Positively, this would mean that when there is perfect obedience to God, there is no shame. This confirms somewhat the spi...
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiat...
Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.
Man is incurably curious.
If you know where you are, you do not know how fast you are moving, and if you know how fast you are moving, you do not know where you are.
Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals; poetry does not come from donkeys; international peace does not c...
Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong about hunger, but there is something wrong about gluttony; there is no...
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, Do it again; and every evening to the moon and the stars, Do it again; and every springtime to the daisies, Do it agai...