Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put …
A religion that doesn’t interfere with the secular order will soon discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with …
The reason why the lukewarm run so great a risk of being lost is because tepidity conceals from the soul the immense evil which it causes. …
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility. –St. Bernard of Clairvaux
It is the great paradox of the modern world that at the very time when the world decided that people should not be coerced about their for…
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded. –St. Bernard of Clairvaux
The greatest pain which the holy souls suffer in purgatory proceeds from their desire to possess God. This suffering especially afflicts t…
God’s way in dealing with those whom He intends to admit soonest after this life into the possession of His everlasting glory, is to purify …
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise …
God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing. –C.S. Lewis
