Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.

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

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

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.

We are artists, because God is.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.