Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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!
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.
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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.
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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.