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

Grey is the devil's favorite color.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

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

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.