A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

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

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.