Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.

Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe."

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.