“There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.”

“At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.”

“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.”

“The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!”

“We are not exceptional in our beginnings, we become exceptional by refusing to accept the obstacles which destiny has placed before us.”

“There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.”