The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms

Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.