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

Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves. In the end they would lose even the capacity to despise themselves. Thus, because of the 'death of God', they would confuse heaven with happiness, and happiness with health.

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

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

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.