He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.
The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.
The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
The Latin words humus, soilearth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble. ' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.
If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.