Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

Charles Wesley's hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was to be experienced in the body as well as in the soul.

It's a no-win situation with politics it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

Whether I make two dollars or no dollars, it's better than losing. I've got enough people playing the games at the casino that I don't lose any money. So it's good for me, and it's fun.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.