We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade,rhythmically falling from the mountain,carried by its own current--carried where?

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that was his abiding ambition.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.