“Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.”

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

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.

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.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

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.

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

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.

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.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do. It’s my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.

I got a Lucifer soul. I’ll be the Devil’s son, Devil’s work, gettin’ work.

For the record, I don’t worship the devil. I just hate religion.

If you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

Married to the game. If we’re dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars.

Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.