The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven

To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

To live without risk is to risk not living.

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.

I lived my grief

The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.