Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

When I think how much my Protestant brothers and sisters are missing in not having Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist; when I kneel before the Eucharist and realize I am as truly in Christ's presence as the apostles were but that my Protestant brothers and sisters don't know that, don't believe that - I at first feel a terrible gap between myself and them. What a tremendous thing they are missing!

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.