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

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

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

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.