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

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.

God always knows the most excellent path

...power doesn’t shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust.

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be.

Long live eternal Germany!