If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Academic theology is false.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

Principles are what people have instead of God.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

A little creativity can make something ordinary, extraordinary, and something extraordinary that much more so.

There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard.

If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.

Better be happy than wise.

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

I've never thought of leaving the South, never.

Consistency is the key! If you can't be consistent, then you can't be anything.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.