Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
All our anxieties relate to time.
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Facts themselves do not give knowledge.
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be “secured” – but with no accompanying responsibility – is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.
Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.
If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary – or he will get the gift of faith.
Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.
Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.