America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.