David Given Schwarm

But when finally the scrolls of history are complete, down to the last word of time, the saddest line of all will be: “There was no room in the inn.” The inn was the gathering place of public opinion, the focal point of the world’s moods, the rendezvous of the worldly, and the rallying place…

Judge the Catholic Church, not those who barely live by its spirit but by the example of those closest to it.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven–not excused or sublimated.

It is typically American to feel that we are not doing anything unless we do something big. But from the Christian point of view, no one thing is bigger than any other thing.