We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.
Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.
Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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.
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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.