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

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

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?

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

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

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.

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

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires converting luxuries into necessities but it only intensifies mans inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Love is a mutual self giving which ends in self recovery.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life there can be no Easter Sunday.

In this sublime hour therefore He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say Good morning God and the other is to say Good God morning

One function of the angels is illumination and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

One brave deed makes no hero.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.