It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

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

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.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

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

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