Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life’s persistent and most urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
I did nothing. The Word did it all.
A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God’s grace.
What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?
The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.
Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.
It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.
When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, “Not in the least.”
The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.
Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me live, then I will die. But you won’t succeed in that. Chop my head off, and it won’t harm me. I have a God who will give me a new one.
I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ’s, or those who are moved by slanders and by infamy, had better leave the ministry of the Word.
When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.