“I can smell the sin on your breath.”

“If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”

“Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.”

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”

“There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.”

“Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.”

“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”