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Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.
Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.
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.
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.
A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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 old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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.
The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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.
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.