There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.