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He that is jealous is not in love.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

Silence does good to the soul.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

To sing is to pray twice.

You know, all mystics – Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion – are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

We must sow the seed, not hoard it.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God’s grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls ‘Christophobia .’ Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture – aliens in a land their forefathers’ beliefs and values established and built.

In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we’d have to learn it in school, we’d to learn the catechism by rote.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

For it is in giving that we receive.

For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope … and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.