A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.