A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like the cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients of happiness.
A robber is free to ransack a house when the owners are away, but it is absurd to say that he loves the owners because he is free to steal. The purest liberty is that which is given, not that which is taken.
All pagan religions begin with the teachings of adults, but Christianity begins with the birth of a child.
As life must be nourished, defended, and preserved; so freedom must be repurchased in each generation.
As the sun shines on mud and hardens it, and shines on wax and softens it, so too this great miracle of Our Blessed Lord hardened some unto unbelief, and softened others unto belief.
Behind many contemporary affirmations of the freedom of love is a false rationalization, for although love involves freedom, not all freedom involves love.
Belief in immortality dies easily in those who live in such a way that they cannot face the prospect of a judgment.
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity.
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.'
Evil men, in order to appear innocent, load accusations of guilt on those whom they have wronged.
God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless 'saint.' Love can be trained; pride cannot.
He who loves God is the most deeply burdened with the sense of his own unworthiness.
Ice deserves no credit for being cold, nor fire for being hot; it is only those who have the possibility of choice that can be praised for their acts.
If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again.
In the case of Socrates, [his] executioner wept over the executed, but here, it is the [Christ] who is to be executed who weeps over the executioners. Such is the difference between a philosopher and God.
It has been said it makes no difference what you believe; it all depends on how you act. This is psychological nonsense, for a man acts out of his beliefs.
Many would say later on, 'We want religion, but no creeds.' This is like saying we want healing, but no science of medicine; music, but no rules of music; history, but no documents.
Men and women...are quite unequal, and it is only because they are unequal that they complement one another. Each has a superiority of function.
Men talk most about health when they are unhealthy. So too they talk most about freedom when they are in danger of losing it or when they are enslaved.
Miracles are not necessarily a cure for unbelief. If the will is perverse, all the evidence in the world would not convince, not even a resurrection from the dead.
No one hates Buddha; he is dead. But hatred against [Christ] would live on, because he lives....
No other teacher in the world [but Jesus] ever said that it would take a violent death to clarify his teachings.
Right is still right if nobody is right, and wrong is still wrong if everybody is wrong.
Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.
Skepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
Some religions draw by force of arms; [Jesus Christ] would draw by force of love.
The Church will…be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.
The liberty of love, therefore, is not license. Freedom implies not just a mere choice but also responsibility for choice.
The man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner...is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.
There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church....
Those who call black black, and white white, are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.
Those who want credit for good character foolishly believe that the best way to get it is to denounce others.
To believe in the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God would make men a race of bastards.
Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State--a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.
Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him—thirsting, hungering, seeking!
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death.
Wait not until your hidden sins come out as psychoses and neuroses and compulsions. Get rid of them at their sources. Repent! Purge! Evil that can be...locked in jails, is too late to remedy.
We must not expect God to transform us without our bringing something to be transformed.
Western man got rid of God in order to make himself God, and then he became bored with his own divinity.
When a democracy loses its moral sense, it can vote itself right out of democracy.
