Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

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.

Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.