Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.