Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

You cannot be in love with love.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

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

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

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.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.