One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

For no change comes calmly over the world.