“For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.”

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful.

Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord.

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

What matters is not your outward appearance but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us.

Man’s salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

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

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.