The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety.

If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads.

In deep silence, close your eyes and let your heart fly by spreading those wings of love in an unknown sky.

In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.