Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
For a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.
A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Science is not wisdom.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
