Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.