The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomena.

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

A community of free men cannot exist if its spiritual base is not solely law.

The supernatural light of the spirit is the only night from which the spirit can emerge alive.

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.