The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.