I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds