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.
The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.
There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.
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.
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Science is not wisdom.
The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.
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.
Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master’s will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
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.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
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.
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.