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 principles and in the right way.
The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on their way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency.
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!
The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.
Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.
How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.
The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.
She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers – she is the world’s first love.
It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake.
The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.
Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called “modern” ideas are really old errors with new labels.
Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays are to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes; and the closer it gets to the center, the stronger it becomes.
The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.
The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.
The basic reason why erotic experiences outside of marriage create psychological strain is because the void between spirit and flesh is more closely felt.
Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.
Remarriage while the true partner is living is a vain attempt to give respectability to dishonor by invoking a human law that overthrows God’s law:.
Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent.