In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.

To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

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.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

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