Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Why must holy places be dark places?

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.