The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Love is something worth suffering for.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

You must have discipline to have fun.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence.

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.

Persons are to be loved; things are to be used.