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

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.

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 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 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.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.

There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

A lion can't stay in a cage. A lion has to be on the pitch.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse