“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spo...”

“Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”

“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.”

“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”

“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

“Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It d...”

“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.”

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. ...”

“The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for tr...”

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”