Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

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

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.