Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

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.

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.

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

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.

If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!

I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod)

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.