Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.

God is mighty in splendor.

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

Meant to be?’ It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.