Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.