The mystery of creativeness is surrounded with awe. A special reverence does envelop the power to be co-creators with God in the making of human life. It is this hidden element that in a special way b...
Tertullian said: Penitence is a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at some previous feeling.
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 But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new i...
Look at your heart! It tells the story of why you were made. It is not perfect in shape and contour, like a Valentine Heart. There seems to be a small piece missing out of the side of every human hear...
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.
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...
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...
Purging trial, fidelities through storm, perseverance through mediocrities, and pursuit of Divine destiny through the allurements of earth.
Truth does grow, but it grows homogeneously, like an acorn into an oak; it does not swing in the breeze, like a weathercock. The leopard does not change his spots nor the Ethiopian his skin, though th...
The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces and satisfied with ideas entirely too superficial, believed...
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
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...
Man is incurably curious.
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.
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.
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...
They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.
The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.
The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.