Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.'

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life. The one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

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!'

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.

The essence of obscenity is the turning of the inner mystery into a jest.

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.

The pure in heart shall see God, because they always do His will. Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure.

We live in days of assassins’ – where evil is sought in lives more than good to justify a world with a bad conscience.

Celibacy is like poetry keeping the idea ever in mind like a dream; but marriage uses chisel and brush, concentrating more on marble and canvas. Celibacy jumps to a conclusion like an intuition; marriage, like reason, labors through ebb and flow, step by step.