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.
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Far better it is for you to say: “I am a sinner,” than to say: “I have no need of religion.” The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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.
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does not understand teaching.
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
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 differentiated by their abstraction.
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is “timing”it waits on the right time to act,for the right principlesand in the right way.
In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the rosary – or better still, from caressing the Crucifix at the end of it – is tremendous!
There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.
To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy.
The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!
The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.
If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.
Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.
Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.
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.
Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right priciples and in the right way
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.
To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life’s temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.