The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Don't immanentize the eschaton!

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

You have to fight. You know, you don't want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best.

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.