It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

I may go for it or I may not. It all depends on what I elect to do on my backswing.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

There is nothing very religious about feeling superior to those who don't share your views.

Voters are saying "I like this guy [Donald Trump]. He just might shake this place up."

The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits