There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.