Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.

God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.

while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a lesser love came easily. The splendor of sunlight does not take away

For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.

Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.

You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Don't wonder why your time hasn't come yet. When you plant a seed, it always takes a while to grow. Don't be hasty. Think, plan, hustle.

It is no rest to be idle.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

When the house is blown up, there’s nothing to shut or open.