Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.