At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

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.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.