“Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.”

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.

The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.

It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.

To be human is to embrace change. There are parts of you ready to die and parts of you waiting to be born. You are never broken, lost. You are ever changing. Always becoming.

This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.