There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

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.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

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.

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.