I am worried about America! I am not so much worried about its politics and economics, important though they be: I am worried about its soul.

Pain without Christ is suffering; pain with Christ is sacrifice.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action

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

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

The more you love, the more you resemble God

The danger today is not in the atomic bomb but in the hearts of men

A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly.

Our generation is not seeking for truth, but for self-expression.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Christianity is not a system of ethics, it is a life. It is not good advice, it is Divine adoption.

Show me your hands. Have they a wound from giving? Show me your feet. Have they been wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

The Church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Freedom does not mean doing what you like. It means having the right to do what you ought.

Time is the opportunity to become what we never were but ought to have been.

If you want people to stay as they are, tell them what they want to hear. If you want them to grow, tell them what they need to hear.

Through Baptism, the divine life begins in the soul. It is not just a symbol; it is an actual sharing in the life of Christ.

If you don’t worship God, you’ll worship something — and nine times out of ten, it’ll be yourself