There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do.
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.
When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy man’s freedom or to deny his personality. But Communism does. Denying God, it reduces man to a robot.
It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.
No man hates God without first hating himself.
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.