So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

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

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.