QUOTATION: Self-Love

Speak as little as possible about yourself, whether in praise or in criticism. Self-love generally blinds us even when we speak badly of ourselves.

--St. Francis de Sales

QUOTATION: The Heart

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

--C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

QUOTATION: Contraception -- The Ends Do Not Justify the Means

Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good, it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it — in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general. Consequently, it is a serious error to think that a whole married life of otherwise normal relations can justify sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive and so intrinsically wrong.

--Pope Paul VI

QUOTATION: Humilty

The better we become, the less conscious we are of our goodness. If anyone admits to being a saint, he is close to being a devil.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: Love

Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.

--St. Clare of Assisi