Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.