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.
Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.
Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.
All love craves unity.
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.