“All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.”

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?

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.

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!