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.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.

Music does not need a visa to enter your heart.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

We will not have peace by afterthought.