Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

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