Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

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

Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

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