Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to ….

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures..

Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he, himself, does not go a….

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in….

I felt I should also contrast Visconti's treatment of the novella - usually damned by Mann fans (who typically respect Britten's more "faithful" adap….

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Amer….

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men..

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention..

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant,….

The egoist does not tolerate egoism..

For who does not know, or does not advert to the fact, that what was given to the Roman Church by Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and is preserved eve….

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit..

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards..

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to p….

It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the univ….

Death does determine life..

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles..

This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinc….

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in acco….

Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21)..

Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will….