If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.

The mirror reflect what it sees. So state of our waterbodies, shows our own nature.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

Don’t take your hands off me even once tonight.” (Vlad)

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.