Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
The undoubtedly lives in belief in God. recognises Christianity as the builder of Western culture. { }
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.
If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms his child.
Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.
The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.
Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
