According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.