When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

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

The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.