Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Singing diminishes sorrow.

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.