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

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.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.