I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

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).

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.