In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

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

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.