You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.