"It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it."

"Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals."

"Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals."

"Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness."

"Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right."

"Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers."

"We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace."

"Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?"

"The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility."

"But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King."

"The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary."

"‎"Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys. To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at the end; it is that which influences every moment of the now."

"The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread."

"Communism is an aggressive religion of the species."

"Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing to us, not those who are hateful."

"The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!"

"As our Lord said, "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things."

"The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious."

"The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away."

"The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite."

"The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table."

"To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma."

"The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble, his blessings."

"If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him."

"Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him."

"Love itself starts with the desire for something good."

"At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners."

"Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering."

"F it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them."

"Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior."

"If you know where you are, you do not know how fast you are moving, and if you know how fast you are moving, you do not know where you are."

"This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man."

"The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem."

"Facts themselves do not give knowledge"

"Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought."

"To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy."

"Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: “God loves me!” And then add: “And I will try to love Him!"

"One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity."

"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way."

"The lover of God never knows the words “too much.” Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love."

"From - Your Life is Worth Living: If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them."

"Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good."

"Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content."

"The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago."

"Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning."

"The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest."

"The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature."

"The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature."

"In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration."

"The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars"