The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

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

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.