You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.