I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.
It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.
Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.
There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.
We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.
Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny.
The way you become divine is to become wholly human.
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
The American dream is under assault.
I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
