Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne čuje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?