God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.