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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 awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy. Would you not return fearless and singing? What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven? To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?

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 out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left