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Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
We are artists, because God is.
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
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 divine promise. Truth happens in history.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.
If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
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 happen, not the worst.
Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.
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