The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

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

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.

Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his haste for premature simplification always tends to shut his eyes to one aspect of the truth and to seek a false harmony of thought by the sacrifice of an essential element of reality.

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

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

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.