Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.