In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.