When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.
We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
I think there is no doubt that the advent of 247 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.
No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning. . . and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.
Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.