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.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

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.

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

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