We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

God is not there just for emergencies.

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.