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.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.