When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of the knowledge that you are loved and honored and treasured.
The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives - and the battle of the blogs is on, full blast. No one bothers to ask whether there's any basis in fact for the assertion that this is going to be a "global-warming encyclical. "
I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.