It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.