Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.