To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

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