Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Death makes its own choices. Has reasoning an order has a taste…

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

There is only one thing people like that is good for them a good night's sleep.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.