"A woman never tells you why she loves; she just "tells "you how she loves."

"Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man."

"Man is incurably curious."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."