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

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

This lack of self-control I fear is never ending.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

I tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end, it doesn’t even matter. I had to fall to lose it all, but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.

In the end we’re all Jerry Springer guests, really, we just haven’t been on the show,

Things aren’t the way they were before, you wouldn’t even recognize me anymore. Not that you knew me back then, but it all comes back to me in the end.

The hardest part of ending is starting again.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

Sometimes beginnings aren’t so simple, sometimes goodbye’s the only way.