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

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.