Bo Brennan Quotes
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops
God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.
The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.
The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.
I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.
The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.
When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.
Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
