Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Despite what one might gather from the shrill rantings of the leftist commentariat, for whom religion is a sort of disease, religious difference in the United States has rarely led to serious social strife. That is no small achievement, and one that virtually no other Western democracy can boast.

God, I don't think I could give advice when such other incredible actors have done it before me and done such amazing things. I think it would be unfair of me.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.