Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

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.

We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

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

I write to discover what I know.

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.