“If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.”

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?

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’!

It seems to me that I have found my Heaven on earth, since Heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing.

Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.

My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.