Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

Maybe this planet is a paradise for the majority but to me feels like I'm traveling in hell and finding lost angels I must rescue.

Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept.

To believe all you have to do is look at the sky.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

I firmly believe that when you have a foundation of respect, love of what you're doing, and a shared vision, so much is possible.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.