Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.