Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.

If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Still, everybody wants to eat.

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.