The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

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

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.

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