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A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.
Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.
Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.
In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.
You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.
None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.
God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt; If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.
I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.
Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.