It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Academic theology is false.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

Principles are what people have instead of God.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do""Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

When the world seems against you then your own confident and willpower will lead you till you reach your goal..

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

I'll call you," Manny said. "You do that, my man. You frickin' do that." -Manny to V

To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it.

It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in Creation and his relationship to all things.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?