God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

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

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.