David Given Schwarm

The lovely people rarely come to God; they take their moral tone from the society in which they live. Like the Pharisees in front of the temple, they believe themselves respectable citizens. Elegance is their test of virtues; to them, the moral is aesthetic, and the evil is ugly. Every move they make is dictated…

The lovely people do not come to God because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited instincts. If they do good, they believe they are to receive the credit for it; if they do evil, they deny it is their own fault. They are good through their own good-heartedness,…

Look for the Church that is hated by the world, as Christ was hated by the world. Look for the Church, which is accused of being behind the times, as Our Lord was accused of being ignorant and never having learned. Look for the Church, which men sneer at as socially inferior, as they sneered…

If I were not a Catholic and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church that the world hates. My reason for doing this would be that if…

When you think of the condition of the world is in now, you sometimes wish that Noah missed the boat.

The modern atheist does not disbelieve because of his intellect but because of his will; it is not knowledge that makes him an atheist…The denial of God springs from a man’s desire not to have a God-from his wish that there was no Justice behind the universe so that his injustices would fear not retribution,…