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To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.
The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.
Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?
Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.
Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .
That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.
O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!
The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.
By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.
We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.
Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.
THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER. A WORLD AT PRAYER IS A WORLD AT PEACE.
The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .
The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
Would that everyone might know that I would be already damned if it were not for Mary!
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.