Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

Every piece of you is a living library of creation. The deeper I look, the more I see.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.