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.
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.