The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

They're getting crazier every day, the whole world's going crazy. And you got to take your mind out to keep your smile in place.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.