For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Grey is the devil's favorite color.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

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