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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.
Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.
Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.
It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."
A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.