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

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.