It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

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

It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.