It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.