“The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.”

“This was a Darkness born of fire.”

“Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.”

“Am I your weakness?""Of course you are.”

“War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.”

“With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold ...”

“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place with...”

“I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addi...”

“Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”

“Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being.”

“It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.”

“When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.”