Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.