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

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

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.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.