Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

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

The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.