An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
Metaphysics is a science.
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.