We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.