When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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.
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads.
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.
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?
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.