Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historia….
Grey is the devil's favorite color..
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage dr….
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative]..
Love is the binding force on every level of existence..
In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth..
True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer proble….
A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradict….
An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, an….
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction..
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achieveme….
Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity….
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills..
The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divi….
Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that eve….
I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves..
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else..
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived..
Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet….
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous..
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic C….