Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

But the Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, “I did it, my sins sent him there, ” and “He did it, his love took him there.

So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.

Cuddle with your children. Don't just read – talk about the pictures too. Give emphasis to your words and make them come alive!Make it fun and enjoyable.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.