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

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.

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.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.

The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Evil exists in the shadows of our world and I’m realizing that without the darkness there would be no light. We need both to stay alive.

Time made us better, our communication was the root and evil couldn’t touch us, the light protected us.