When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

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.

If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

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.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.