Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.

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.

Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.