Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

Man is incurably curious.

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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