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!

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

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.