What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.