“From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two grea...”

“Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.”

“Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter...”

“You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.”

“If what we want is God’s justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out of the way and let God do his o...”

“Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of expe...”

“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condem...”

“I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the go...”

“Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our h...”

“I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and fu...”