Leonardo da Vinci believed that man was a microcosm of the world, imbued with meaning.

Leonardo da Vinci suggests that what did happen is what had to have happened.

We are all part faithful, part faithless.

If we have run, if we have been exposed for all the world to see, it is not our failure that matters most. It is Christ’s strength.

If faith isn’t a strong ship, how can we expect it to carry us over the waters of death?

Have you heard the saints confess? It fills you with wonder at God’s grace, so clearly at work in their lives, in our world.

Rules protect life, but they do not enhance it.

What can the church and her Scriptures say to those who are broken?

Christians are called to asceticism as a way of reaching out, in faith, toward a life to come.

In fasting, in abstinence, in visits to church, we are showing our love to God.