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

....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.