When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis!