The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

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

This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself, while hate is not in God but is in Satan. If we do not clearly distinguish anger from hatred, then we do not clearly distinguish God from Satan!