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

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

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.