The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

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