A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.