Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘