Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

There is no love which does not become help.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.