“Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.”

But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.

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.

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 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.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.