I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.
Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ. . . Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians. . . Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.
Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.
I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.