Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.

The Eucharist is a fire which inflames us

If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.

Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

Now all things have been filled with light, both heaven and earth and those beneath the earth; so let all creation sing Christ's rising, by which it is established.

To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them. (when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan)

I'm pretty sure most of us would be more fulfilled if we didn't fixate on fulfillment quite so much.

One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.

Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.