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.

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

[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.

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

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

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.