The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.