As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Keep going and the Lord will help you.

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

All of us can meet God's high expectations.

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.