Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

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

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.