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.

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.

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.

For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

I close my eyes, think positive thoughts, and breathe goodness in and out

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.