Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man..
The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes time for the seed to grow, for t….
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal..
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask ….
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting..
If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never….
Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything..
When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you..
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 ….
When I think how much my Protestant brothers and sisters are missing in not having Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist; when I kneel before the E….
Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap risi….
We are artists, because God is..
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He per….
Humility, humility, humility, and humility..
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons..
Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world..
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind….
The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one..
God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to ….
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice..
This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself, while hat….