We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

Father! Can I box him? Please!