The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.