Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse..
If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it..
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise y….
Indifference is the only road that never gets to God..
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accomm….
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left.
The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry..
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for mean….
When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin..
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature ….
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a sc….
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….
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater..
Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21)..
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside..
To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate..
Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportuni….
The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry.
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….
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 k….
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind..