He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.
Doubt is but another element of faith.
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
God’s faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
When we read a book, our most essential trait – imagination – is given the opportunity to soar.
Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.
Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.