If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.