Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

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.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.