We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.