“I have to be motivated, and I’m sure time will avail itself.”

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody

If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.

I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I’m one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let’s just say I’m the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.

You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.

I’m speaking to someone I’m trying to get to fall in love with me. I’m trying to speak intimately to one person. That should be clear. I’m not speaking to an audience. I’m not writing for the podium.

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.

As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.