Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the ….
There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love..
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow..
The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the ….
Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters..
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head bec….
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….
Philosophy has degenerated into ideology..
Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?.
Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners..
Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propag….
God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb..
In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory deat….
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place t….
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..
You cannot be in love with love..
Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints..
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady….
Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower..
Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love….
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts..