All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.