The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

Faith is obedience, nothing else.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

That's what we're trained to do.

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.

In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.