The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.
Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.
People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!
The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.
You have to like yourself before you can do anything!
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!
Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.