Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again..
The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither..
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….
When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils..
The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin i….
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….
Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the Creator….
Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God..
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love..
A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love..
Things look different when history is seen as His-story..
On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do somethi….
God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy..
Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world..
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak mu….
Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by t….
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them..
To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part..
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….
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with..
If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong ….