Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

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

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.