Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

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

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.