One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Humility is attentive patience.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.