The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.