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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself."

"What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil."

"Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left."

"You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God."

"The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant."

"When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat."

"The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal."

"Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action."

"...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-"

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."

"We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation."

"Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad."

"It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced."

"Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others."

"Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love."

"All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion."