Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.