“Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.”

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.

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.

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.

If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

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.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

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.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

For them to see you shine, you must stay far away, for you are just like the sun, when you are too close, you light makes them blind. And when you are too far, they seek you. So let them seek you.

You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Maybe you’re the reason why all doors are closed, so you can open one that leads you to the perfect road.

A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

True art comes from flying with the madness so close you burn your eyelashes.

The weather never stays too cold when the mother stays close

All hustlers have the understanding that when one door closes, another will open.