We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes time for the seed to grow, for the Kingdom to come, and we are commanded to pray and work for that coming, that growth, even if we do not yet see the fruits, or even the blossoms, or even the leaves...

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.