Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

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

In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.