These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back. '
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.