When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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.