Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the liberal optimists was s snare and a delusion... Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the "children of light." Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.