the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser men are forthcoming (Gaudium et Spes, 15)

And with regard to ourselves, how deservedly do we keep the feast of the Assumption with all solemnity. What reasons for rejoicing, what motives...

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking. (Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, +1641)

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better...

Therefore, since each of us possesses God in his heart and is being transformed into his divine image, we also should cry out with...

Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. (Saint Alphonsus Ligouri, as quoted in the Catechism, 2744)

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. (G.K. Chesterton)

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Pope Saint John Paul II)

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people (G.K. Chesterton)

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. – Marcus Tullius Cicero