Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.
Justice comes before charity.
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is. . . on a world-wide basis.
I am made to tremble and I fear!
The deposit of the faith is one thing. . . the way it is expressed is another.
There was a beautiful time.
Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most sensitive of all the issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. But Donald Trump determined an important aspect of the United States' position towards Jerusalem before any agreement. Most of the rest of the world feels that it ought not to be dealt with first, that it ought not to be dealt with separately, and that it ought not to be dealt with unilaterally.
My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see you as the choicest spirits ever placed on the earth. The promises in your generation's patriarchal blessings, if you are faithful, seem to exceed the promises in Sister Faust's blessing and in mine. . . . I want you to know that I believe in you. I believe you can be in the world but not of the world.
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is. . . it made us an is.