The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.