Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
You cannot be in love with love..
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.".
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived..
Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the….
It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete thing….
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again..
The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself..
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the So….
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas..
An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, an….
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil..
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our ….
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head bec….
There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest….
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God wi….
Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got ….
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts..
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside..
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference betwe….
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love..
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well..