If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and ther… - C. S. Lewis

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly.