Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.
Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.