Christians have no business moping around.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.

Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.