Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell.

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

Beware of formulas. If there's a God, he's not a God of formulas.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.