Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way..
Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world..
The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself..
The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one..
Great saints are never wimps..
How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, o….
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for mean….
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create..
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists..
Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world..
Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the Creator….
You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance..
The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerfu….
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul..
Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's..
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater..
Gratitude is the seedbed of joy..
Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity….
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind….
Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation..
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritua….