A helpful distinction I once heard — that between contradictions and correlations.

Much is revealed about a person by observing what he or she notices. And that’s because what one spots is in large part determined by what that person values more and appreciates less.

An often-cited quote from Dale Carnegie: “Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

Anyone who regularly prays the rosary knows the experience of repetition. In the course of fingering the beads through five decades, you’ll have recited the same prayer, the Hail Mary, over 50 times.

Jesus’ frequent mention of children can shed light on the nature of this Kingdom He speaks about, the Kingdom of his dear Father.

In John’s gospel, to shed light on the meaning of his upcoming death, Jesus employs the image of a grain of wheat.

One of the occupational hazards of people who study religion and theology is to equate ideas with the force behind them.

In many different instances, Jesus shows awareness of a world wider than the human one.

David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times, lays out two different styles of interpersonal relating. One he calls the llluminator and the other the Diminisher.

A commentator on these readings posed a beguiling question: “how much is enough?”