The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.