Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.