The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

Warrior, when you pledge yourself to the service of a High Priestess, the goal is not to frighten her to death but to protect your lady from death.