Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

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

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.