Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

I determined to learn to pray so that my experience conforms to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.

The Bible is the means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service.

Look what we've done so far. We're pretty good at the impossible.

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Oft stumbles at a straw.

Neighbor… was that the word for "whoring tramp" nowadays?

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.