The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

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