When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.