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.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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.