The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you’re going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you’re sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.