To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
Suffering and evil will not have the last word.
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.
There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.
The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.
The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.
I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.
The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U. S. conspiracy against us. . . . stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.
I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.