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

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.

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.

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.