Michel Houellebecq is a very gifted French cynic.  

When sharing or defending the faith, we can never overlook the power of our own testimony: evidence of how God has worked in our own lives. 

The world has never done a real good job of listening to prophets.

In Anglo-Saxon lore the great mead-hall of Herot, the palace of the noble King Hrothgar, has fallen unto disarray and ruin. 

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers.

As the local churches gradually open again, one is reminded of the persistence of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, president of the College of William and Mary, ringing the school bell during seven years of closure after the Civil War.

To rewrite history is eventually to resent history altogether, to live in the present without past or future.

The French theoretical physicist Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) was amazingly prolific and contributed much to hydrodynamics and thermodynamics, but his most important influence may be his philosophy and history of science. 

Clichés should not be ignored just because they are clichés. 

This week we remember and re-enact the most important events in the entire history of the world.