A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

All our anxieties relate to time.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.