The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

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

God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.