The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
- G.K. Chesterton
I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right.
- G.K. Chesterton
Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.
- St. Francis de Sales
Get the children for first communion and say to them, "Somebody votes for the killing of unborn babies, and says, 'I voted for that, I will vote for that every time', and these babies are killed, not one or two, but in millions, and that person says 'I am a practicing Catholic', should that person receive communion next Sunday?" The children for first communion will answer that at the drop of a hat. You don't need a cardinal to answer that.
- Cardinal Francis Arinze
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
- St. Francis de Sales
Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
- St. Augustine
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- G.K. Chesterton