"The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty."
"Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts."
"It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively."
"The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart."
"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."
"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am."We are ontological oxymorons."