These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

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 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.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

I think there is some misunderstandin g that has been going around as everybody wants to support me. But, still I'd like to thank all my fans for loving me so much.

These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.