“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?”

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.

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.

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!

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

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.

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.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

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.

If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour’s plain command to go?

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

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.