Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

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

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.

The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.