I'd like to address the problem of the decline of Western Civilization in terms of symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, and prescription.

C. S. Lewis shrewdly noted, in The Four Loves, that the first casualty of a misplaced exaltation of eros is eros itself.

The word unhappy has been virtually abolished from the English language. For every person who says "I'm unhappy" there must now be a thousand who say "I'm depressed."

I thank you for sitting through a long lecture, which was your Purgatory; now you get to the Heaven of asking questions. [laughter & applause]

There is wine, and there is wine. We are temperate, not so that we may drink a little bit of wine and grow a little tipsy, but so that we may drink the true wine and grow inebriated.

When Jesus first sent forth his disciples to preach that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand, he did not advise them to take provisions.

The atheistic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche may have been right on the mark in his observations about the best way to undermine Christianity.

Zeal reveals to us all the difference between a world grown merely secular and old, and the youthfulness of Christian love.

We all know the account in Luke about the boy Jesus, who when he was twelve years old accompanied his parents to Jerusalem for the Passover, as was their custom.

Virtue is understated, underappreciated, under-valuated, and misunderstood.