If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your own.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

Some negative things in life will never change, but try not to let them change you.

The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes

Now Anurag will be called Abhinav Kashyap's brother

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Just live every day like it's your last day and be the best person that you can be.

I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be.

The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.

Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.