True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

To live without risk is to risk not living.

God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.