God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.
By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.
The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.