Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood!

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!

It's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.

That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!