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.

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

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.

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.

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

We rule out raising taxes this year.

God is everywhere, and exists in us, through us, as us.

The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face al Qaeda.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.