Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

You ought to conquer the obstacle to achieve the goal.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!