True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.