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

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.

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.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

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

The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

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?

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised to believe that family comes first.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It’s not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.