“Fear goes where it is invited.”

“The reality is this is a war. These people are waging war on us. This has gone on for 1,400 years. This is nothing new. And the whole time while this goes on, the police leaders or political leaders want to invite more! They want to invite more!”

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.”

“Where he's wrong is that we went into Iraq at the invitation of the government, not as an invasion.”

“Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.”

“Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There in nothing more than this”

“The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation
to every quarter where Christians live;
and these God-fearing people, elated,
stand in their doorways and greet it reverently,
the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.”

“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”

“There is a limit to caution and farsightedness; if one goes beyond the limit, fear and wretchedness will result.”

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”