“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.”

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

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

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

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

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.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.