The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.