"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 meaning or mystery. It produces "nice"people, not heroes."
"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."
"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."
"It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else."
"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 your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction."