Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, ‘Well done.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

… how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap...

Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal...

… what you think is right isn’t the same as knowing what is right.

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.

One day, when I thought I was alone, I prayed in church. While making this offering before the cross, a parishioner came up to me, put her arm around my shoulder and prayed, ‘Dear God,...

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

Heaven is not a republic.

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in...

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for...

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

… a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to...

That’s it. Love makes us all strong.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might closeon my own peace, I wanted to closethe peace of my love in my heartlike dew in a dark rose.”From “Philip Speaks

… love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has…

…it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone...

Soeur Marie Emelie”Soeur Marie Emelieis little and very old:her eyes are onyx,and her cheeks vermilion,her apron wide and kindand cobalt blue.She comfortsgenerations and generationsof children,who are “new”at the convent school.When they are eight,they are already...

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so,...