God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light.

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

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

Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.