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

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

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.

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.

O Allah, You know that the only thing I want in this life Is to be obedient to Your command. Even the living sight of my eyes Is service at your court

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

Women like me bleed on command.

Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

If there’s never been a restraining order, it ain’t love.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.