Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joyfor others and ourselves.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

If gifted with unbelief, even when the train of success stops at your doorstep you will still miss it.

Being proactive and intentional will enable you to create a positive experience for yourself and others.

I don't miss anything I did for a living.

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.