Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.