Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.