He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.
When the going gets tough, you have to lie.
I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious. . . I am for secret, dark debates.
When it becomes serious, you have to lie.
Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.
One shouldn't pursue the wrong policies just because one is afraid of not being reelected. Those who intend to govern have to take responsibility for their countries and for Europe as a whole. This means, if need be, that they have to pursue the right policies, even if many voters think they are the wrong ones.
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.