Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy’s vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.
Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.
It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.
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.
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?