There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for.
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.
Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity
Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.
Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.
Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.
A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
I have some good stories yet to tell.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.