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

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.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.

In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

Then, they had insisted that only empirical criteria matter and that they actually did not believe in the reality of sub-atomic entities.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.

The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.