The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Man is incurably curious.

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

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

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.