The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.