Forget the statistics. . . we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.
When you feel like some people will turn their back on you, judge you so much, you just have to keep going and you can keep going with your life. There are so many things that you can touch on really.
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.