Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.

For no change comes calmly over the world.