A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

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

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.

Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.

Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!