Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.

If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.