Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

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

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

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

If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.