Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.