Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.