Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.