Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
In America, we don't even have a border. It's an open sieve.
He leaned against the door frame, ignoring the kick of adrenaline the sight of her produced. He wondered why, not for the first time. Isabelle used her beauty like she used her whip, but Clary didn't know she was beautiful at all. Maybe that was why.