We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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