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

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

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.

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.