Faith is God's work within us.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

We have been called to wrestle with sin through the cross of Jesus Christ

I loved learning to fight and kill zombies.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I'm not complicated at all. I say raps that your two-year-old son can learn.