"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable
		even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."

	 "No government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough
	 to lay claim to so absolute a power as death."

	 "I love America more than any other country in this world, and,
	 exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
	 

	 "Imagination is more important than knowledge.  For while knowledge
	 defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to
	 all we might yet discover and create."
	 

	 
	 "Laughter is carbonated holiness."

	 "What is unique [about] the Catholic faith is the liturgical and sacramental beauty
	 of the Catholic tradition, rooted in a theology of grace that encourages us to see
	 the shimmer of divine love in every aspect of the material world."

	 "Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods,
	 asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves
	 to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being
	 replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish." 

	 "Let Christians, while witnessing to their own faith and way of life,
	 acknowledge, preserve and encourage the spiritual and moral good found
	 among non-Christians, as well as the values in their society and culture." 

	 "Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers,
	 we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible
	 with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world
	 becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from
	 the patterns of this world."

	 "Pray for the dead and work like hell for the living."

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