Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

I will never want for more. You are my totality.

She was someone's dream, who just chose to show up in someone else's sleep.

Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

The best legacy we leave is not for our children but in our children.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.