If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.
You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you’ll be far wiser and happier.
Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.
Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.
A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
Knowing belongs to man’s intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.
By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.
Man is incurably curious.
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.