Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect.

The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.