Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.