Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.