Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in th….
There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love..
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….
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….
Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up..
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….
Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own..
The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist..
When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils..
Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears….
We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal..
Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God..
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left.
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desi….
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or e….
Life is hard, but death is even harder..
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place t….
The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could….
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car ….
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness..
God's wraith is really only the face of love refused..