The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.