We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Nothing is more conservative than conservation
The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
I wanted to be a plumber.
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.