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

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.

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.

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?

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.

The lack of influence or power is more dangerous than worrying about things being reduced to nothingness.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.