Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.