Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

The past is what the present is doing now.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

I learned it was better to tiptoe through life and arrive at death's door safely.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

Thought is the seed of action.

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.