Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

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

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

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.

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.