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

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.