Quotes
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win. All the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
There are wars where no one marches with a flag, though that does not keep casualties from mounting. Our hearts irrigate this earth. We are fields before each other.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
Now among all passions inflicted from without, death holds the first place, just as sexual concupiscences are chief among internal passions. Consequently, when a man conquers death and things directed to death, his is a most perfect victory.
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.