Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

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

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.