My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know I don't miss it.
God is stronger than their strength more loving than their uttermost love and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others they have obtained the infallible proof that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God the fallible words of men or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.
But I recognize no infallible authority even in special questions consequently whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual I have no absolute faith in any person.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone with the knowledge that only God is watching him and play his ball where it lies is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.