Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

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

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.

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

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

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

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.