I was not a fan of the new companion traveling in our mini-van.

The seventh and eighth beatitudes.

Just as the heart-opening virtue of humility is the remedy for pride, so solicitude for the good of others is the remedy for envy, the second of the deadly vices.

Humility is more, far more, than a curative for pride. It is itself a mighty power.

The fifth and sixth beatitudes.

Christ's fourth beatitude, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness," cuts to the rotten flesh at the heart of the modern world.

Christ proposes a vision of happiness which is the exact opposite of what everyone in the post-Christian West assumes to be the sources of the greatest happiness in life.

God has some "unrest" in His being.

Although conscience may seem to be a kind of feeling, the moral demands that it makes on us reveal that its seat is in reason.

In discussion, we deliberate for the sake of coming to the truth; in argument, we abandon the mutual pursuit of truth because our purpose is to triumph.