The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

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?

If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.