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.

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

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

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.