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

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

You cannot be in love with love.

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