Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.