While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
To love is to will the good of the other.
To love God is something greater than to know Him.
The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.