The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Even with all the Lace, you can't be an Ace without God's grace.- RVM

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

That which is cannot be true.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.