Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

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

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

Great saints are never wimps.

Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry